Stack

What it is

Stack is a cross-platform build tool for Haskell that handles management of the toolchain (including the GHC compiler and MSYS2 on Windows), building and registering libraries, and more.

What you get

• Once downloaded, it has the capacity to download and install GHC and other core tools.
• Project development is isolated within sandboxes, including automatic download of the right version of GHC for a given project.
• It manages all Haskell-related dependencies, ensuring reproducible builds.
• It fetches from a curated repository of over a thousand packages by default, known to be mutually compatible.
• It can optionally use Docker to produce standalone deployments

How to install

To install stack on Fedora, run:

$ sudo dnf install stack

GHC installation

The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) is an open source native code compiler for Haskell.

To install GHC on Fedora, run:

$ sudo dnf install ghc

This will install GHC including the ghci read-eval-print-loop, the haddock documentation generator, and several other utilities.

Please refer to the official documentation at https://haskell.org/ghc for more information about GHC, or https://haskell.org for information about Haskell in general.

The Haskell Platform

Another option is to install the Haskell Platform package, which provides ghc and ghci as above, but also includes a plethora of useful Haskell libraries and utilities to help kickstart your Haskell programming experience.

The Haskell Platform also includes Cabal, which aids in the packaging, distribution, and installation of Haskell libraries and applications.

To install the Haskell Platform, run:

$ sudo dnf install haskell-platform

Authors: Adam Samalik, Jarek Prokop, Jens Petersen, Matúš Honěk, Ryan Desfosses