Compiling non-Elisp files in ELPA packages (was: Including some functions from dash.el in Emacs?)

[Stefan Monnier]

> Sadly Not Yet at least, since elpa doesn't make it easy for me (or at
> least I dont know how) to  bundle the speech server which might need
> compilation (not elisp)

ELPA currently doesn't support such things, indeed, and since this is
something that's needed by several "potential packages", it would be
good to fix this and provide support for it.  So I encourage you to try
and see what would be needed and help us improve package.el in
that direction.

This said, in the mean time, you might get things to work by adding in
the main Elisp file of your package something along the lines of:

    (eval-when-compile (call-process "make"))


-- Stefan