Cabal

The Haskell Cabal:

The Common Architecture for Building Applications and Libraries

http://www.haskell.org/cabal/

Summary

• Cabal is a package and build system. Cabal is only involved in the creation of packages and the building of their contents. It does not manage packages.
• Cabal-Install installs cabal packages. It is distinct from Cabal (the build system). This often confuses new users. Furthermore, Cabal-Install is not a fully featured package manager. For example, it cannot install non cabal packaged dependencies, it cannot uninstall packages, nor can it automatically upgrade installations.

Information for package users

• Cabal User Guide
• An introduction to cabal-install
• FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
• Cabal-Install - tool that greatly simplifies installation of Cabal packages
• Cabal-Sort - assistance with compilation of multiple cabal packages
• Hackage - the Haskell community's public repository of cabal packages
• Other cabal related packages on hackage

Information for package developers

• How to write a Haskell program
• Building a shared library in Cabal
• Upgrading packages
• Package versioning policy
• Adding data files using Cabal
• Cabal Setup file examples
• Setting up Cabal, the FFI and c2hs