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Building and booting the Haste compiler

This document briefly describes how to build Haste from scratch. This is fairly easy on Linux-based systems, and a bit less easy on Windows.

Build dependencies

Build dependencies all non-Haskell dependencies necessary to build as well as bootstrap Haste.

For all platforms

  • libbz2
  • zlib
  • git
  • GHC 7.10
  • libgmp
  • libffi
  • pandoc (to build man pages)

Additional Windows dependencies

  • Cygwin, including GCC

Additional OSX dependencies

  • Apple's XCode developer kit

Building haste-cabal

As Haste support is not yet merged into vanilla Cabal, for now we have to use our own haste-cabal wrapper. An appropriate pre-built version of this binary is downloaded as part of Haste's bootstrap process, so building it yourself is not strictly necessary to build Haste from scratch. However, if you experience problems with the pre-built binaries, building from source is always a good idea.

Start by checking out the source and switching to the appropriate branch:

$ git clone https://github.com/valderman/cabal && cd cabal
$ git checkout haste-cabal

Then we build and install the Cabal library:

$ cd Cabal && cabal install

Finally, install the modified cabal binary itself:

$ cd ../cabal-install && cabal install

On Linux, haste-cabal has a runtime dependency on the versions of libgmp and libffi it was linked against. If you intend to run your binary on another machine than the one you built it on, you may want to bundle those libraries with your binary and use a wrapper script to execute it with the appropriate library environment.

Building Haste

If you are building a released version, simply use cabal and you're done:

$ cabal update && cabal install haste-compiler

If you are building a development branch, or if you want to build a portable binary package, you should start by checking out the source from GitHub:

$ git clone https://github.com/valderman/haste-compiler && cd haste-compiler

If you simply want to install the current development version, just install it with cabal as usual:

$ cabal install

If you want to build a portable binary package, the process is slightly different:

$ cabal configure -fportable -fstatic
$ cabal build

All binaries will be build and copied into the haste-compiler directory in the repository root.

The portable flag tells Haste to look for libraries and settings in the directory where the hastec binary resides, while the static flag enables building the Haste binaries statically. On OSX, the latter flag doesn't do anything as OSX is rather hostile towards static linking.

Be aware that a portable installation is statically linked (except on OSX), and thus includes libgmp. This comes with a small legal gotcha:

  • you will need the static libgmp libraries (.a files) to build, and
  • if you are distributing portable Haste binaries with proprietary modifications, you are violating the LGPL license of libgmp unless you also provide your application in source or object format. If this is a problem for you, consider contributing your changes back to mainline Haste under the BSD3 license.

Booting Haste

Normal install

Booting Haste is now a matter of running the appropriate haste-boot binary. If you installed the Haste binaries onto your system (as opposed to building the portable binaries), you just add Cabal's local binary directory to your search path, and then run haste-boot --local from the root of your source repository, indicating that you want to use the libraries already present in that directory instead of downloading some other version.

If you built and installed your own haste-cabal binary, you will want to tell haste-boot to avoid downloading a pre-built haste-cabal binary and instead use your pre-built binary using the --with-haste-cabal=$YOUR_BINARY flag.

See haste-boot --help for more bootstrapping options.

Portable

If you built the portable binaries, you instead need to run the haste-boot binary that got copied into haste-compiler (which is highly unlikely to be on your search path):

$ haste-compiler/bin/haste-boot --local

Haste will be bootstrapped into said directory rather than into ~/.haste.

If you built your own haste-cabal binary, you will want to use the --with-haste-cabal=$YOUR_BINARY flag to ensure $YOUR_BINARY is used instead of the one haste-boot would otherwise download.

Building a complete portable package

The process of checking out a clean copy of Haste, building, booting and packing up the result into a redistributable binary package is automated using the build-release.hs script. In order to build a portable Debian package, for instance, simply run runghc build-release deb and a Debian package will appear in the ghc-7.10 directory in the root of Haste's source tree.

The build-release script can build multiple file formats in one go; simple pass all formats you wish to build as command line arguments. To see which formats are currently supported by build-release, run it without arguments.