---
title: Basic Tooling Guide
author: Michael Snoyman <michael@fpcomplete.com>
description: Getting up-and-running to develop Haskell code
first-written: 2015-02-24
last-updated: 2015-02-24
last-reviewed: 2015-02-24
---

Needs to be written. Basics:

* [Installing dev tools](http://www.stackage.org/install)
* Overview of different command line tools (ghc, cabal)
* Stackage
* Sandboxing
* Starting a project
* http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2014/09/woes-multiple-package-versions
* Generating docs with working links, e.g.: `cabal haddock --hyperlink-source --html-location='http://www.stackage.org/haddock/lts-1.9/$pkg-$version'`