@hackage / ghcup

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• Last updated 16 Jun 2026, by maerwald
• License LGPL-3.0-only
• Categories Systems Programming

• Maintained by: hasufell@posteo.de

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Installation

Tested Compilers

1. 9.10.3
2. 9.8.4
3. 9.6.7

Package Flags

Use the -f option with cabal commands to enable flags

tui (on by default)

Build the brick powered tui (ghcup tui).

internal-downloader (off by default)

Compile the internal downloader, which links against OpenSSL. This is disabled on windows.

strict-metadata-parsing (off by default)

Don't ignore unknown keys in metadata. Useful for metadata testing.

no-exe (off by default)

Don't build any executables

tar (off by default)

Use haskell tar instead of libarchive.

yaml-streamly (off by default)

Use yaml-streamly instead of yaml (based on conduit)

dhall (on by default)

Add support for dhall encoded metadata

dhall-tests (on by default)

Run dhall tests depedning on dhall-yaml/dhall-json