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cabal — Interface to the Haskell package infrastructure (Cabal). Manage Haskell projects and Cabal packages

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Problem

How to use the cabal command: Interface to the Haskell package infrastructure (Cabal). Manage Haskell projects and Cabal packages from the Hackage package repository. More information: <https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started.html>.

Solution

cabal — Interface to the Haskell package infrastructure (Cabal). Manage Haskell projects and Cabal packages from the Hackage package repository. More information: <https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started.html>.

Search and list packages from Hackage:

cabal list {{search_string}}

Show information about a package:

cabal info {{package}}

Download and install a package:

cabal install {{package}}

Create a new Haskell project in the current directory:

cabal init

Build the project in the current directory:

cabal build

Run tests of the project in the current directory:

cabal test

Code Snippets

Search and list packages from Hackage

cabal list {{search_string}}

Show information about a package

cabal info {{package}}

Download and install a package

cabal install {{package}}

Create a new Haskell project in the current directory

cabal init

Build the project in the current directory

cabal build

Context

tldr-pages: common/cabal

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