---
name: "c2hs-config"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "c2hs"
version: "0.12.0-1"
release: "Debian 3.1 (Sarge)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/c2hs-config"
---

# c2hs-config(1)

script to get information about the C2HS marshalling library.

## NAME

c2hs-config - script to get information about the C2HS marshalling library.

## SYNOPSIS

**c2hs-config** \[--c2hs\] \[--system=HS\] \[--version\] \[--libs\] \[--cflags\] \[--prefix\[=*DIR*\]\] \[--exec-prefix\[=*DIR*\]\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page briefly describes the **c2hs-config** command.  For more details, refer to the main documentation, which is available in various other formats, including SGML and HTML; see below.

## OPTIONS

**c2hs-config** accepts the following options:

- **--c2hs**

  Print the path to the c2hs-config tool itself. This slightly simplifies configuration management of libraries generated by C-\>Haskell, as it is sufficient to know the location of c2hs-config to access all other components of C-\>Haskell.

- **--system=**HS

  Select the target compilation system. Currently, only **ghc4** is supported, but this may change in future releases.

- **--version**

  Print the currently installed version of *C2HS* to the standard output.

- **--libs**

  Print the linker flags that are necessary to link a program against the *C2HS* library.

- **--cflags**

  Print the compiler flags that are necessary to compile a program using the *C2HS* library.

- **--prefix=***DIR*

  If specified, use *DIR* instead of the installation directory that *C-\>Haskell* was built with when computing the output for the --cflags and --libs options. This option is also used for the exec directory if --exec-prefix was not specified. This option must be specified before any --libs or --cflags options.

- **--exec-prefix=***DIR*

  If specified, use *DIR* instead of the installation exec directory that *C2HS* was built with when computing the output for the --cflags and --libs options.  This option must be specified before any --libs or --cflags options.

## SEE ALSO

**[c2hs(1)](/c2hs/1.md)**

*/usr/share/doc/c2hs/html/c2hs.html*

## COPYRIGHT

C-\>Haskell Version 0.12.0 Copyright (c) \[1999..2002\]  Manuel M. T. Chakravarty \<chak@cse.unsw.edu.au\>

## AUTHOR

This manual page was mainly copied from the gtk-config manual page.

It was written by Michael Weber \<michael.weber@post.rwth-aachen.de\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).