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Phil
Phil

Reputation: 50386

How to install Haskell cabal tool for Haskell 7.6.1 on Mac OSX?

I installed Haskell on MAC OSX according to the instructions on this page.

Version 7.6.1 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_7_6_1

However, it does not install the cabal tool which I need for installing packages.

How can I install cabal?

Upvotes: 15

Views: 15515

Answers (3)

Antal Spector-Zabusky
Antal Spector-Zabusky

Reputation: 36622

From the top of that page:

Stop!

For most users, we recommend installing the Haskell Platform instead of GHC. The current Haskell Platform release includes a recent GHC release as well as some other tools (such as cabal), and a larger set of libraries that are known to work together.

So following that link will get you what you want: the Haskell Platform is GHC plus the packages and tools you want, including Cabal (the library) and cabal-install (the command-line tool). Since you're on OS X, you can also use Homebrew to get the GHC and Cabal if you want: brew install ghc cabal-install.

Upvotes: 42

Adrian47
Adrian47

Reputation: 1

As the Haskell Platform is deprecated since 2022, Haskell on Mac can be installed using Homebrew.

The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) and The Cabal Library can be installed using:

brew install ghc cabal-install

To install the The Haskell Tool Stack use:

brew install stack  --cask

Upvotes: 0

Shawn
Shawn

Reputation: 57

Now, we can install it from this download haskell and do not need homebrew. Both are easy ways.

Upvotes: 1

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