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Building & Installing

For full information on building GHC, see the GHC Building Guide [1]. Here follows a summary - if you get into trouble, the Building Guide has all the answers.

Before building GHC you may need to install some other tools and libraries. See "Setting up your system for building GHC" [2].

NB. in particular you need GHC installed in order to build GHC, because the compiler is itself written in Haskell. For instructions on how to port GHC to a new platform, see the Building Guide [1].

For building library documentation, you'll need Haddock [3]. To build the compiler documentation, you need a good DocBook XML toolchain and dblatex.

Quick start: the following gives you a default build:

$ perl boot
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

The "perl boot" step is only necessary if this is a tree checked out from git. For source distributions downloaded from GHC's web site, this step has already been performed.

These steps give you the default build, which includes everything optimised and built in various ways (eg. profiling libs are built). It can take a long time. To customise the build, see the file HACKING.md.

References

[1] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation [3] http://www.haskell.org/haddock/