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1# Installation information

3If you are having difficulty installing the PureScript compiler, feel free to

4ask for help! A good place is the #purescript IRC channel on Freenode, or

5alternatively Stack Overflow.

7## Using prebuilt binaries

9The prebuilt binaries are compiled with GHC 7.10.3, and therefore they should

10run on any operating system supported by GHC 7.10.3, such as:

12* Windows 2000 or later,

13* OS X 10.7 or later,

14* Linux ??? (we're not sure what the minimum version is).

16This list is not exhaustive. If your OS is too old or not listed, or if the

17binaries fail to run, you may be able to install the compiler by building it

18from source; see below.

20It's probably safe to assume that other prebuilt distributions (eg, Homebrew,

21Chocolatey, AUR, npm) use the same binaries, and therefore have the same

22requirements.

24## Compiling from source

26GHC 7.10.1 or newer is required to compile from source. The easiest way is to

27use stack:

29```

30$ stack install --resolver=nightly purescript

31```

33This will then copy the compiler and utilities into `~/.local/bin`.

36If you don't have stack installed yet there are install instructions

37[here](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/blob/master/doc/install_and_upgrade.md).

39If you don't have ghc installed yet, stack will prompt you to run `stack setup`

40which will install ghc for you.

42## The "curses" library

44`psci` depends on the `curses` library (via the Haskell package `terminfo`). If

45you are having difficulty running the compiler, it may be because the `curses`

46library is missing.

48On Linux, you will probably need to install `ncurses` manually. On Ubuntu, for

49example, this can be done by running:

51```

52$ sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

53```