This repo contains derivations for all GHC versions.

> nix-shell -p nur.repos.mpickering.ghc.ghc801
> ghc --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 8.0.1

It is intended to facilitate the work flow of using nix and cabal new-build together where nix is used to provide ghc and cabal but not to manage haskell dependencies.

CI pushes the builds to cachix, so that might work, but the nixpkgs version isn't pinned so don't count on it. The builds don't take very long anyway.

cachix use mpickering

A function is provided so you can use your own bindist if you want. The best ones to use from gitlab are the fedora27 artifacts.

nur.repos.mpickering.ghc.mkGhc { src.x86_64-linux = { url = "https://gitlab-artifact-url.com"; sha256 = "<sha256>"; }; }

The default assumes ncurses6, if the platform uses ncurses5, for example, deb8 then set the ncursesVersion attribute as well.

nur.repos.mpickering.ghc.mkGhc { src.x86_64-linux = { url = "https://gitlab-artifact-url.com"; sha256 = "<sha256>"; }; ncursesVersion = "5"; }

1. Modify version.json with the new release number
2. Run ./update