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If you just want to use Alex, you can build from a release. This should work the same as any other Haskell package.
Alex itself and its examples are intended to work with GHC >= 7.0.
From Hackage via Cabal Install:
$ cabal install alex
$ stack install alex
Moreover, recent versions of cabal
will automatically install the required version of alex
based on build-tools
/build-tool-depends
declarations.
Because Alex is a dependency of GHC, it is often packaged by operating systems. Repology aggregates this info across many distros and operating systems, and Alex is actually listed twice:
The table contains links to the individual OS packages, which should provide installation instructions.