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Compiler and base libraries
Downloads are available on a per operating system basis:
- Windows
- OS X
- Linux
Package manager
If you are using an operating system which has an up-to-date package set, you may be able to simply install everything via that.
Haskell Platform
The Haskell Platform is a comprehensive, robust development environment for programming in Haskell. For new users the platform makes it trivial to get up and running with a full Haskell development environment.
For experienced developers, the platform provides a comprehensive, standard base for commercial and open source Haskell development that maximises interoperability and stability of your code.
Advanced setup
Alternatively one can manually install GHC and Cabal packages, but note, is particularly easier on POSIX (e.g. Linux, BSD, OS X) systems.
1. Install GHC
GHC has its own web site with license information, FAQ, download links and changelogs. Depending on your operating system, there should be a package made for its package manager, otherwise (e.g. Windows) it will be an installer.
You can also download the .tar.gz/.zip and unpack and install the executables and so forth manually.
Or you can even install from source, for which there is documentation.
2. Install Cabal-install
After installing GHC, you will want the Haskell package manager:
Download the tar.gz file, extract and inside the resulting directory, run:
$ sh ./bootstrap.sh
This will automatically download and install all the packages necessary to setup Cabal install.
Once complete, you should add $HOME/.cabal/bin to your PATH. A
simple way to do this is to edit your ~/.bashrc and place in there:
export PATH=$HOME/.cabal/bin:$PATH
Now you should be able to run cabal:
$ cabal --version
cabal-install version 1.18.0.2
using version 1.18.1.2 of the Cabal library
And can start writing Haskell programs and installing packages!