haskell-language-server

Integration point for ghcide and haskell-ide-engine. One IDE to rule them all. Read the project's background.

This is very early stage software.

• Haskell Language Server (HLS)
  • Installation
    • Installation from source
      • Common pre-requirements
      • Linux-specific pre-requirements
      • Windows-specific pre-requirements
      • Download the source code
      • Building
        • Install via cabal
        • Install specific GHC Version
  • Project Configuration
  • Editor Integration
    • With emacs
    • With doom emacs
    • With Kakoune
  • Contributing
    • It's time to join the project!

Installation

For now only installation from source is supported.

Installation from source

Common pre-requirements

• stack or cabal must be in your PATH
  • You need stack version >= 2.1.1 or cabal >= 2.4.0.0
• git must be in your PATH
• The directory where stackor cabal put the binaries must be in you PATH:
  • For stack you can get it with stack path --local-bin
  • For cabal it is by default $HOME/.cabal/bin in linux and %APPDATA%\cabal\bin in windows.

Tip: you can quickly check if some command is in your path by running the command. If you receive some meaningful output instead of "command not found"-like message then it means you have the command in PATH.

Linux-specific pre-requirements

On Linux you will need install a couple of extra libraries (for Unicode (ICU) and NCURSES):

Debian 9/Ubuntu 18.04 or earlier:

sudo apt install libicu-dev libtinfo-dev libgmp-dev

Debian 10/Ubuntu 18.10 or later:

sudo apt install libicu-dev libncurses-dev libgmp-dev

Fedora:

sudo dnf install libicu-devel ncurses-devel # also zlib-devel if not already installed

Windows-specific pre-requirements

In order to avoid problems with long paths on Windows you can do either one of the following:

1. Clone the haskell-language-server to a short path, for example the root of your logical drive (e.g. to C:\hls). Even if you choose C:\haskell-language-server you could hit the problem. If this doesn't work or you want to use a longer path, try the second option.

2. If the Local Group Policy Editor is available on your system, go to: Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Filesystem set Enable Win32 long paths to Enabled. If you don't have the policy editor you can use regedit by using the following instructions here. You also need to configure git to allow longer paths by using unicode paths. To set this for all your git repositories use git config --system core.longpaths true (you probably need an administrative shell for this) or for just this one repository use git config core.longpaths true.

In addition make sure haskell-language-server.exe is not running by closing your editor, otherwise in case of an upgrade the executable can not be installed.

Download the source code

git clone https://github.com/haskell/haskell-language-server --recurse-submodules
cd haskell-language-server

Building

Note, on first invocation of the build script with stack, a GHC is being installed for execution. The GHC used for the install.hs can be adjusted in ./install/shake.yaml by using a different resolver.

Available commands can be seen with:

stack ./install.hs help

Remember, this will take time to download a Stackage-LTS and an appropriate GHC for build haskell-language-server the first time.

Install via cabal

The install-script can be invoked via cabal instead of stack with the command

cabal v2-run ./install.hs --project-file install/shake.project <target>

or using the existing alias script

./cabal-hls-install <target>

Running the script with cabal on windows requires a cabal version greater or equal to 3.0.0.0.

For brevity, only the stack-based commands are presented in the following sections.

Install specific GHC Version

Install haskell-language-server for the latest available and supported GHC version (and hoogle docs):

stack ./install.hs hls

Install haskell-language-server for a specific GHC version (and hoogle docs):

stack ./install.hs hls-8.8.3
stack ./install.hs data

The Haskell Language Server can also be built with cabal v2-build instead of stack build. This has the advantage that you can decide how the GHC versions have been installed. To see what GHC versions are available, the command cabal-hls-install ghcs can be used. It will list all supported GHC versions that are on the path for build with their respective installation directory. If you think, this list is incomplete, you can try to modify the PATH variable, such that the executables can be found. Note, that the targets hls and data depend on the found GHC versions.

An example output is:

> ./cabal-hls-install ghcs
******************************************************************
Found the following GHC paths:
ghc-8.6.5: /opt/bin/ghc-8.6.5
ghc-8.8.3: /opt/bin/ghc-8.8.3

******************************************************************

If your desired ghc has been found, you use it to install haskell-language-server.

./cabal-hls-install hls-8.6.5
./cabal-hls-install data

Project Configuration

For a full explanation of possible configurations, refer to hie-bios/README.

haskell-language-server has some limited support via hie-bios to detect automatically your project configuration and set up the environment for GHC. The plan is to improve it to handle most use cases.

However, for now, the more reliable way is using a hie.yaml file in the root of the workspace to explicitly describe how to setup the environment. For that you need to know what components have your project and the path associated with each one. So you will need some knowledge about stack or cabal components.

You also can use this utility to generate automatically hie.yaml files for the most common stack and cabal configurations

For example, to state that you want to use stack then the configuration file would look like:

cradle:
  stack:
    component: "haskell-language-server:lib"

If you use cabal then you probably need to specify which component you want to use.

cradle:
  cabal:
    component: "lib:haskell-language-server"

If you have a project with multiple components, you can use a cabal-multi cradle:

cradle:
  cabal:
    - path: "./test/functional/"
      component: "haskell-language-server:func-test"
    - path: "./test/utils/"
      component: "haskell-language-server:hls-test-utils"
    - path: "./exe/Main.hs"
      component: "haskell-language-server:exe:haskell-language-server"
    - path: "./exe/Wrapper.hs"
      component: "haskell-language-server:exe:haskell-language-server-wrapper"
    - path: "./src"
      component: "lib:haskell-language-server"
    - path: "./ghcide/src"
      component: "ghcide:lib:ghcide"
    - path: "./ghcide/exe"
      component: "ghcide:exe:ghcide"

Equivalently, you can use stack:

cradle:
  stack:
    - path: "./test/functional/"
      component: "haskell-language-server:func-test"
    - path: "./exe/Main.hs"
      component: "haskell-language-server:exe:haskell-language-server"
    - path: "./exe/Wrapper.hs"
      component: "haskell-language-server:exe:haskell-language-server-wrapper"
    - path: "./src"
      component: "haskell-language-server:lib"
    - path: "./ghcide/src"
      component: "ghcide:lib:ghcide"
    - path: "./ghcide/exe"
      component: "ghcide:exe:ghcide"

Or you can explicitly state the program which should be used to collect the options by supplying the path to the program. It is interpreted relative to the current working directory if it is not an absolute path.

cradle:
  bios:
    program: ".hie-bios"

The complete configuration is a subset of

cradle:
  cabal:
    component: "optional component name"
  stack:
    component: "optional component name"
  bios:
    program: "program to run"
    dependency-program: "optional program to run"
  direct:
    arguments: ["list","of","ghc","arguments"]
  default:
  none:

dependencies:
  - someDep

Editor Integration

Note to editor integrators: there is now a haskell-language-server-wrapper executable, which is installed alongside the haskell-language-server executable. When this is invoked in the project root directory, it attempts to work out the GHC version used in the project, and then launch the matching haskell-language-server executable.

All of the editor integrations assume that you have already installed haskell-language-server (see above) and that the installation script put the haskell-language-server binary in your path (usually ~/.local/bin or ~/.cabal/bin on linux and macOS).

Using haskell-language-server with Emacs

Install HLS along with the following emacs packages:

lsp-mode lsp-ui lsp-haskell

Make sure to follow the instructions in the README of each of these packages.

(use-package lsp-haskell
 :ensure t
 :config
 (setq lsp-haskell-process-path-hie "haskell-language-server-wrapper")
 ;; Comment/uncomment this line to see interactions between lsp client/server.
 ;;(setq lsp-log-io t)
)

Using haskell-language-server with doom-emacs

Install haskell-language-server, and then enable haskell lang module with lsp flag in .doom.d/init.el

:lang
(haskell +lsp)

in your .doom.d/config.el file

(use-package lsp-haskell
 :ensure t
 :config
 (setq lsp-haskell-process-path-hie "haskell-language-server-wrapper")
 ;; Comment/uncomment this line to see interactions between lsp client/server.
 ;;(setq lsp-log-io t)
)

then do $HOME/.emacs.d/bin/doom refresh

Using haskell-language-server with Kakoune

1. Grab a copy of kak-lsp, and follow the setup instructions.
2. Point your kak-lsp.toml to haskell-language-server-wrapper.

[language.haskell]
filetypes = ["haskell"]
roots = ["Setup.hs", "stack.yaml", "*.cabal"]
command = "haskell-language-server-wrapper"
args = ["--lsp"]

Contributing

It's time to join the project!

❤️ Haskell tooling dream is near, we need your help! ❤️

• Join our IRC channel at #haskell-ide-engine on freenode.
• Fork this repo and hack as much as you can.
• Ask @alanz or @hvr to join the project.

Hacking on haskell-language-server

Haskell-language-server can be used on its own project. We have supplied preset samples of hie.yaml files for stack and cabal, simply copy the appropriate template to hie.yaml and it should work.

• hie.yaml.cbl for cabal
• hie.yaml.stack for stack

Two sample hie.yaml files are provided, hie.yaml.stack for stack usage, hie.yaml.cbl for cabal. Simply copy the relevant one to be hie.yaml and it should work.

The developers tend to hang out at our IRC channel at #haskell-ide-engine on freenode.