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

• An introduction to cabal-install
• A short and transient survival guide for Cabal users
• How to install a Cabal package
• An Introduction to Cabal sandboxes
• 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• CabalFind - finding Cabal packages on the web (now superseded by Hackage)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.
• Blog article: Repeat after me: “Cabal is not a Package Manager”
• cab, a maintenance command of Haskell cabal packages
• Blog article: Haskell Best Practices for Avoiding "Cabal Hell"

Information for package developers

• How to write a Haskell program
• Building a shared library in Cabal
• FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions of package authors
• How to install a Cabal package remotely
• 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