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1#+STARTUP: showall hidestars

3* Alternative Haskell Infrastructure for Nixpkgs

5[[https://buildkite.com/input-output-hk/haskell-dot-nix][https://badge.buildkite.com/d453edcd29bd2f8f3f3b32c9b7d6777a33773d9671c37a6ccc.svg?branch=master]]

7=haskell.nix= is an experimental new builder for Haskell packages.

9It works by automatically translating your Cabal or Stack project and

10its dependencies into Nix code. Most of your dependencies are already

11translated, so you generally won't have too much generated code.

13For the documentation, see https://input-output-hk.github.io/haskell.nix/.

15** Quickstart

17This will download and build =nix-tools=.

19#+begin_src sh

20nix build -f https://github.com/input-output-hk/haskell.nix/archive/master.tar.gz nix-tools -o nt

21./nt/bin/cabal-to-nix

22#+end_src

24** Related repos

26The =haskell.nix= repository contains the runtime system for building

27Haskell packages in Nix. It depends on other repos, which are:

29- [[https://github.com/input-output-hk/nix-tools][nix-tools]] — provides the programs for generating Nix expressions from

30 Haskell projects.

32- [[https://github.com/input-output-hk/hackage.nix][hackage.nix]] — the latest contents of the [[https://hackage.haskell.org/][Hackage]] databases,

33 converted to Nix expressions.

35- [[https://github.com/input-output-hk/stackage.nix][stackage.nix]] — all of the [[https://www.stackage.org/][Stackage]] snapshots, converted to Nix

36 expressions.

38** IRC Channel

40Join the [[https://www.irccloud.com/invite?channel=%23haskell.nix&hostname=irc.freenode.net&port=6697&ssl=1][#haskell.nix]] channel on [[https://freenode.net/][irc.freenode.net]] to get help or discuss

41the development of =haskell.nix= and =nix-tools=.