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 - for that, use the Haskell tool stack.

Information for package users

• Stack - a tool that uses Cabal to greatly simplify installation of Cabal packages, amongst other tasks
• FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
• Cabal-Sort - assistance with compilation of multiple cabal packages
• Hackage - the Haskell community's public repository of cabal packages
• Cabal User Guide* 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