Cabal

The Haskell Cabal:

The Common Architecture for Building Applications and Libraries

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

Information for package users

• How to install a Cabal package
• FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
• Cabal-Install - tool that greatly simplifies installation of Cabal packages
• Cabal-Sort - assistance with compilation of multiple cabal packages
• CabalFind - finding Cabal packages on the web (now superseded by Hackage)
• Storage and Identification of Cabalized Packages
• cabal-dev, a tool for managing development builds of Haskell projects. It supports maintaining sandboxed cabal-install repositories, and sandboxed ghc package databases. See PSA: Use cabal-dev to solve dependency problems for an extensive description.

Information for package developers

• How to write a Haskell program
• FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions of package authors
• Upgrading packages
• Package versioning policy
• Creating Debian packages from Cabal package
• Adding data files using Cabal
• Cabal Setup file examples
• Cabal-make - automation based on makefiles
• Setting up Cabal, the FFI and c2hs