Nhcmake - a tool for automated compilation of Haskell programs Nhcmake is a tool similar to the standard Unix Make tool, but tailor made for compiling Haskell programs. It has at least two advantages over the standard Make tool: * Nhcmake automatically extract dependencies from the source files. This removes the need to construct and maintain Makefiles of the kind used by the ordinary Make tool, and it makes it easy to compile large programs distributed over several directories or to keep several smaller programs, possibly sharing some modules, in the same directory. * Nhc differs from the compilers taken into account when the standard Make tool was designed in that it generates two files for each module compiled: an object file and and interface file. The object file is updated each time the module is compiled. The interface file is updated only when the interface information changes, in which case it will be necessary to recompile other modules that import from this module. This behaviour is tricky to express in the Makefiles used by Make, but is handled correctly by Nhcmake. Nhcmake is implemented as a Haskell program and a shell script (obey file on RISC OS). The haskell program extracts the dependencies from the source files and generates the appropriate list of compilation commands in the appropriate order. The shell script (obey file) parses command line arguments, invokes the Haskell program and finally executes the commands generated by the Haskell program.