Linking custom object files with Cabal

Question

In a custom cabal hook I generated object files (*.o) which I want to pass to the linker. How do I do this idiomatically?

Solution Don Stewart's answer goes in the right direction. Currently I do the following:

$ runhaskell Setup.lhs build --ld-options="PATHS TO .o FILES"

Answer 1

According to the Cabal documentation for UserHooks, it looks like you'll need to add a buildHook, by specifying additional build flags, that add your .o files to the buildFlags for ld.

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As an aside, you should be aware that generating custom .o files is highly unusual, and likely to make your build fragile. Is there a particular reason why Cabal is unable to generate these .o files itself?