BSD

Note: If support for GHC on your combination of OS and hardware is incomplete, see https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/platforms for more information about its level of support.

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Tips and tricks for users of the BSDs (Note, Mac users, are you looking for Mac OS X tips?)

FreeBSD

There are ports and packages:

• lang/ghc, package name ghc, version 8.6.3
• devel/hs-cabal-install, package name hs-cabal-install, version 2.4.0.0
• devel/stack, package name stack, version 1.9.3
• and many more

More information in the FreeBSD Wiki's Haskell page

There are Haskell libraries and programs for handling your FreeBSD Ports:

• porte (ports-mgmt/porte) provides an interface to searching ports index fields and collecting frequency statistics for these
• newports lists ports newer than N days

OpenBSD

There are ports and packages:

• lang/ghc, package name ghc-7.10.3
• meta/haskell-platform, package name haskell-platform-7.10.3
• and many more

Specific tools:

• cpuperf toggles the CPU frequency, see dons blog for an in-depth explanation, "Practical Haskell: shell scripting with error handling and privilege separation"

NetBSD, DragonFly BSD (and others using pkgsrc)

There are ports in pkgsrc:

• lang/ghc, version 6.8.3 and wip/ghc, version 7.4.1 (using binary bootstrap kits)
• and many more

Miscellaneous BSD-specific packages

• bsd-sysctl provides access to the BSD sysctl(3) interface

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