Hdirect

HaskellDirect

HaskellDirect generates interface code, to interface between Haskell and several other languages, based on

Interface Definition Language (IDL) descriptions. Amongst others, interfaces to and from Component Object Model (COM) methods can be generated.

See also the old HaskellDirect page in the Web Archive

Documentation

• HaskellDirect user's manual (HTML, in the Web Archive)

Sigbjorn Finne

PostScript downloads:

• • [[media:user-a4.ps.gz] | a4]
  • [[media:user-letter.ps.gz | letter]

• [[media:comserve.ps.gz | Calling Hell From Heaven And Heaven From Hell] (PS)

Sigbjorn Finne, Daan Leijen, Erik Meijer and Simon Peyton Jones

describes how to wrap up Haskell code as COM objects.

• [[media:hdirect.ps.gz | H/Direct: A Binary Foreign Language Interface for Haskell] (PS)

Sigbjorn Finne, Daan Leijen, Erik Meijer and Simon Peyton Jones

describes the mapping between Haskell and IDL. 

• Design document (a bit outdated) (HTML, in the Web Archive)

Sigbjorn Finne

describes HaskellDirect's features

PostScript downloads:

• • [[media:user-a4.ps.gz] | a4]
  • [[media:user-letter.ps.gz | letter]

See also Foreign Function Interface

Download

• hdirect on Hackage, a version from 2009
• hdirect on GitHub, compilable with GHC 7.8.3 and 7.10, but needs more work