OCamlPro
Add configuration means for better support of `menhir`
At the moment there does not seem to be a way to pass options to menhir. As a use case, here's what I'd need in the dune file of a package:
(library
…
(libraries … menhirLib)
…
(menhir (modules parser)
(flags --table))
One can add dune-libraries = "menhirLib" in [fields] to deal with the library dependency.
The part I fail to specify is the --table, and a custom name for the parser module.
For the second part, it should be in:
dune-trailer = """
(menhir (modules parser)
(flags --table))
"""
I think it should work
For the menhirLib, you can use:
[[dependencies]]
menhir = { libname = "menhirLib", version = ">=1.2" }
It should put menhir as the dependency in opam files, and menhirLib as the dependency in dune files.
Ok thanks that's a way.
However note that with the dune trailer added as you suggested along with a generators = [… "menhir"], the generated dune file has multiple rules for a parser parser, i.e. multiple (menhir (modules parser) …) structs. Removing "menhir" from the list of generators leads to a functioning dune file, yet drom outputs a little line saying, e.g, no generator for parser.mly, which looks like a future warning.
Clearly, using dune-trailer is just a way to make it work, it is not a long term solution. The long term solution would probably to add a menhir-flags entry or something like that.