CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

[Unreleased]

• The minimum supported Bazel version is now v0.22.
• Mark haskell_cc_import as deprecated.

[0.8] - 2019-01-28

• The minimum supported Bazel version is now v0.21.

Added

• haskell_register_toolchains, haskell_register_ghc_bindists and haskell_register_ghc_nixpkgs to register multiple toolchains for multiple platforms at once. Toolchains from binary distributions can now coexist with toolchains from Nixpkgs, even on the same platform. On nixpkgs you need to provide a toolchain. See the README for instructions. See #597 and #610.
• Instructions on how to reference a local checkout of rules_haskell.
• rules_haskell is forward-compatible with the next breaking changes in bazel versions, via the --all_incompatible_changes flag. See #613.

Removed

• The generate_so attribute of haskell_binary and haskell_test has been completely superseded by linkstatic in the last release and became a no-op, so it is removed.
• The main_file attribute of haskell_binary and haskell_test had been deprecated because it was a no-op, so it is removed.
• The prebuilt_dependencies attribute of all haskell rules had been deprecated two versions ago and is removed. Use haskell_import instead (see docs for usage).
• The extra_binaries field is now no longer supported.

Changed

• ghc_bindist now requires a target argument. Use haskell_register_ghc_nixpkgs to call ghc_bindist once per known target. See #610.
• ghc_bindist now registers itself as a toolchain. We no longer require a separate toolchain definition and registration in addition to ghc_bindist. See #610.
• c2hs support is now provided in a separate toolchain called c2hs_toolchain, rather than an optional extra to the haskell_toolchain. See #590.
• Rename bindist arch names so they are the same as in rules_go/nodejs.

Fixed

• Prevent duplicate installs of bazel_skylib See #536.
• Test suite now executes all binaries, various runtime errors were uncovered. See #551.
• Repl targets that have indirect cc_library dependencies. See #576.
• linkstatic for haskell binaries that have an indirect dependency on a prebuilt haskell package. See #569.
• … and an indirect dependency on a C library. See #567.
• Prefer linking agains static C libraries with linkstatic. See #587.
• Haddock flags take precedence over GHC compiler flags. See #572.
• User-defined GHC flags now override default flags. See #607.
• Dynamic transitive C(++) libraries work. See #627.

[0.7] - 2018-12-24

Added

• Support for Bazel 0.20.0. This is now also the lower bound for the supported version.
• Supported reexported modules, via the new exports attribute. See #357.
• Support linkstatic attribute, for building mostly static binaries. This is now the default for binaries, to match the C/C++ rules defaults. See #378.
• It is now possible to set default Haddock flags in the toolchain definition. See #425.
• Support wrapping Haskell libraries as shared objects callable from Python. See #370.

Changed

• REPL targets have changed name. If you have a library target foo, then the corresponding REPL target is now called foo@repl. It was previously called foo-repl. The old name is still supported but is deprecated.
• Don't set a default version number anymore in libraries and binaries. Version numbers, and CPP version macros, are now only used for packages imported from Hackage. Don't use them otherwise. See #386, #414 and #446.
• On macOS, we use ar for linking, not Libtool. See #392.
• The runfiles Haskell library has been broken out into a Cabal library and published on Hackage.

Fixed

• Make REPL force building of dependencies. See #363.
• Don’t crash on inputs missing .haddock interface files. See #362
• Fix handling of non-unique package names. See #403.

[0.6] - 2018-07-21

Added

• Protocol buffers integration using proto-lens. See #239.

• strip_include_prefix attribute to the haskell_cc_import rule. See #241.

• Support for c2hs files. See #351.

• The extra_srcs attribute that allows to list non-Haskell source files that should be visible during compilation and linking (usually useful with TH). See #292.

• The extra_binaries attribute to the haskell_toolchain rule. See #282.

• A Haskell library for looking up runfiles. See #302.

• A separate toolchain for doctest—haskell_doctest_toolchain. See #310.

• The compiler_flags attribute to the haskell_toolchain rule allowing to specify default compiler flags. See #315.

• The ability to set locale to be used during compilation by adding the locale and locale_archive attributes to haskell_toolchain. See #328.

• Proper support for profiling. See #332.

• The repl_ghci_args attribute to the haskell_toolchain rule. See #334.

• The haskell_import rule allowing us to make specifying dependencies more uniform and to deprecate the prebuilt_dependencies attribute. See #337.

Fixed

• Template Haskell linking against cc_library. See #218.

• Linking issues on MacOS. See #221.

• GHC packages that correspond to targets with the same name but in different Bazel packages no longer clash. See #219.

• Build breakage on MacOS when XCode is not installed. See #223.

• Bug preventing Haddock generation because of missing dynamic shared libraries when targets have TH in them. See #226.

• Hyperlinks between targets contained in different Bazel packages (Haddocks). See #231.

• Generated source files do not cause issues now. See #211.

• data attributes now allow files in them. See #236.

• Bug when headers and hsc2hs-produced files were not visible to Haddock. See #254.

• Bug preventing using genrule-produced headers via haskell_cc_import. See #268.

• Bug that allowed us avoid specifying certain prebuilt_dependencies if they were already specified for transitive dependencies. See #286.

• Bug that was making modules generated from .hsc and .chs files and generated modules in general not available in the REPLs. See #323.

Changed

• Added -Wnoncanonical-monad-instances to default warnings in haskell_lint.

• How REPLs work. Now there is an optional output per binary/library. Its name is the name of target with -repl added. Users can then build and run such a REPL for any defined target. See #220 and #225.

• The haskell_doc rule now produces self-contained documentation bundle with unified index. See #249.

• haskell_lint now only lints direct dependencies. See #293.

• haskell_doctest has been re-designed. It's now a normal rule that works only on direct dependencies and allows to specify modules which should be tested, pass custom flags to doctest executable. See #342.

• The prebuilt_dependencies attribute of haskell_binary and haskell_library has been deprecated. See #355.

[0.5] - 2018-04-15

Added

• Support for MacOS, courtesy of Judah Jacobson. See #165.

• Support for data attributes in haskell_binary and haskell_library rules. See #167.

• Output on building of GHC bindists so it's clearer what went wrong in case of a failure.

• haskell_repl rule allowing to interact with GHCi. See #82.

• Support for GHC 8.4.1 bindist. See #175.

• haskell_lint rule. See #181.

• haskell_doctest rule. See #194.

Changed

• Improved hermeticity of builds. See #180.

• cc_haskell_import now works with haskell_binary targets as well. See #179.

[0.4] - 2018-02-27

Added

• hidden_modules attribute of the haskell_library rule. This allows to selectively hide modules in a library. See #152.

Fixed

• Test executables now find shared libraries correctly at runtime. See #151.

• Building of certain modules does not fail with the “file name does not match module name” message anymore. See #139.

• Linking issues that resulted in unresolved symbols due to incorrect order in which static libraries are passed to linker are not resolved. See #140.

• The “grep not found” error is fixed. See #141.

• System-level shared libraries introduced by haskell_cc_import are now found correctly during compilation. See #142.

[0.3] - 2018-02-13

[0.2] - 2018-01-07

[0.1] - 2018-01-02