1. Intro

Some packages (e.g. haskus-system) use these binary modules to provide bindings to C libraries. We don’t want to rely on external tools such as C2HS to provide bindings to C libraries because:

• We don’t want to depend on .h files;

• .h files often contain pecularities that are difficult to handle automatically;

• Documentation and code of the resulting Haskell files are often very bad:

  • No haddock

  • Very low-level (e.g. #define are not transformed into ADTs with Enum instances)

Instead haskus-binary lets you write bindings in pure Haskell code and provides many useful things to make this process easy.