Welcome to the Cabal User Guide

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. A tool for working with packages
  • 1.2. What’s in a package
  • 1.3. Cabal featureset
  • 1.4. Similar systems
• 2. Configuration and Installing Packages
  • 2.1. Configuration
  • 2.2. Building and installing packages
• 3. Package Concepts and Development
  • 3.1. Quickstart
  • 3.2. Package concepts
  • 3.3. Developing packages
• 4. Reporting Bugs and Stability of Cabal Interfaces
  • 4.1. Reporting bugs and deficiencies
  • 4.2. Stability of Cabal interfaces
• 5. Nix-style Local Builds
  • 5.1. Quickstart
  • 5.2. Cookbook
  • 5.3. How it works
  • 5.4. Commands
  • 5.5. Configuring builds with cabal.project
• 6. Nix Integration
  • 6.1. Enabling Nix Integration
  • 6.2. Creating Nix Expressions
  • 6.3. Nix Expression Evaluation
  • 6.4. Further Reading
• 7. Cabal file format changelog
  • 7.1. Changes in 2.4
  • 7.2. cabal-version: 2.2
  • 7.3. cabal-version: 2.0
  • 7.4. cabal-version: 1.24
  • 7.5. cabal-version: 1.22
  • 7.6. cabal-version: 1.20
  • 7.7. cabal-version: 1.18
  • 7.8. cabal-version: 1.16
  • 7.9. cabal-version: 1.12