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Downloads:

599,419

Downloads of v 9.6.1:

8,673

Last Update:

12 Mar 2023

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • GHC Team

Tags:

ghc haskell

GHC

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9.6.1 | Updated: 12 Mar 2023

Downloads:

599,419

Downloads of v 9.6.1:

8,673

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • GHC Team

Tags:

ghc haskell

GHC 9.6.1

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All Checks are Passing

3 Passing Tests


Validation Testing Passed


Verification Testing Passed

Details

Scan Testing Successful:

No detections found in any package files

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Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall

To install GHC, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To upgrade GHC, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To uninstall GHC, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

Deployment Method:

NOTE

This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.

1. Enter Your Internal Repository Url

(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/)


2. Setup Your Environment

1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment

Please see the organizational deployment guide

2. Get the package into your environment

  • Open Source or Commercial:
    • Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
    • You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download

3. Copy Your Script

choco upgrade ghc -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" [other options]

See options you can pass to upgrade.

See best practices for scripting.

Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.

If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:


choco upgrade ghc -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" 
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE

Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
  Exit 0
}

Exit $exitCode

- name: Install ghc
  win_chocolatey:
    name: ghc
    version: '9.6.1'
    source: INTERNAL REPO URL
    state: present

See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.


chocolatey_package 'ghc' do
  action    :install
  source   'INTERNAL REPO URL'
  version  '9.6.1'
end

See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.


cChocoPackageInstaller ghc
{
    Name     = "ghc"
    Version  = "9.6.1"
    Source   = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}

Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.


package { 'ghc':
  ensure   => '9.6.1',
  provider => 'chocolatey',
  source   => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}

Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.


4. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation

See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.

Package Approved

This package was approved as a trusted package on 12 Mar 2023.

Description

Highlights:
• GHC supports the entire Haskell 2010 language plus a wide variety of extensions.
• GHC has particularly good support for concurrency and parallelism, including support for Software Transactional Memory (STM).
• GHC generates fast code, particularly for concurrent programs. Take a look at GHC's performance on The Computer Language Benchmarks Game.
• GHC works on several platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux, most varieties of Unix, and several different processor architectures. There are detailed instructions for porting GHC to a new platform.
• GHC has extensive optimisation capabilities, including inter-module optimisation.
• GHC compiles Haskell code either directly to native code or using LLVM as a back-end. GHC can also generate C code as an intermediate target for porting to new platforms. The interactive environment compiles Haskell to bytecode, and supports execution of mixed bytecode/compiled programs.
• Profiling is supported, both by time/allocation and various kinds of heap profiling.
• GHC comes with several libraries, and thousands more are available on Hackage.

There's an important change to path handling for Windows starting with 8.6.1.
These changes mean that Haskell programs are no longer constraint to MAX_PATH. So passing a long path to openFile will just work.
There are a few caveats to this such as you can't access COM devices via COM1 etc anymore and instead need to use the full path \\.\COM1 etc.
This is all documented https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.8.4/docs/html/users_guide/win32-dlls.html#windows-file-paths

32-bit Windows is no longer supported and installing this package on 32-bit Windows will install GHC 8.6.5.

GHC 9.0 contains a new I/O manager for Windows as a technical preview. See changelog for more information.

Package Specific

changes

  • Adds support for Azure Pipelines.

Package Parameters

The following package parameters can be set:

  • /installdir: - The location to install package to. Note that installing to a directory with spaces will likely lead to difficulties.
  • /globalinstall: - Indicates whether package should be installed for current user or all users.
  • /integer-simple: - Indicates to use the GHC bignum package instead of the GMP one, for compatibility reasons the flag is kept the same.
  • /no-workarounds: - Don't apply any package specific workarounds that may be needed to make the compiler work.

To pass parameters, use --params "''" (e.g. choco install packageID [other options] --params="'/ITEM:value /ITEM2:value2 /FLAG_BOOLEAN'").
To have choco remember parameters on upgrade, be sure to set choco feature enable -n=useRememberedArgumentsForUpgrades.


tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1
$version     = '9.6.1'
$packageName = 'ghc'
$url         = 'https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.5/ghc-8.6.5-i386-unknown-mingw32.tar.xz'
$binSha256   = '6121a889839d8b409f082169365bbfb6ed9e6a1f6ff0531d577ef7c2a9a417fb'
$variant     = ''
$pp          = Get-PackageParameters
if ($pp['integer-simple']) {
  $variant = '-int_native'
  $binSha256 = 'bdb2b84225adc7f0459514d3638db00be97223949338bb1852076b4d4518ed90'
}
$baseTarget  = 'ghc-' + $version + '-x86_64-unknown-mingw32'
$target      = $baseTarget + $variant
$url64       = 'https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/9.6.1/' + $target + '.tar.xz'
$is32 = (Get-OSArchitectureWidth 32)  -or $env:chocolateyForceX86 -eq 'true'

if($is32)
  {
      Write-Host "#     # ####### ####### ###  #####  #######"
      Write-Host "##    # #     #    #     #  #     # #      "
      Write-Host "# #   # #     #    #     #  #       #      "
      Write-Host "#  #  # #     #    #     #  #       #####  "
      Write-Host "#   # # #     #    #     #  #       #      "
      Write-Host "#    ## #     #    #     #  #     # #      "
      Write-Host "#     # #######    #    ###  #####  #######"
      Write-Host ""
      Write-Host " 32 bit binary for Windows is no longer supported."
      Write-Host "GHC 8.6.5 will be installed instead."
      Write-Host ""
      # rewrite the version to 8.6.5 so installer works
      $version = '8.6.5'
  }

# Fixes issue #4
if ($pp['installdir']) {
  $binRoot         = $pp['installdir']
} else {
  $binRoot         = Get-ToolsLocation
}
$packageFullName = Join-Path $binRoot ($packageName + '-' + $version)
$binPackageDir   = Join-Path $packageFullName "bin"


$tmpPath = Join-Path $packageFullName "tmp"
$tarFile = $packageName + "Install"
$tarPath = Join-Path $tmpPath $tarFile
$tmpFile = Join-Path $binRoot ($tarFile + "~")

Get-ChocolateyWebFile -PackageName $packageName -FileFullPath $tarPath `
    -Url $url -ChecksumType sha256 -Checksum 2a8fb73080ed4335f7a172fe6cf9da1a2faa51fdb72817c50088292f497fc57a `
    -Url64bit $url64 -ChecksumType64 sha256 -Checksum64 $binSha256
Get-ChocolateyUnzip -fileFullPath $tarPath -destination $binRoot
Get-ChocolateyUnzip -fileFullPath $tmpFile -destination $binRoot
rm $tmpFile # Clean up temporary file

# new folders are stupidly long and verbose and break convention.
# let's normalize them
$longBinPackageDir = Join-Path $binRoot $baseTarget
if (Test-Path $longBinPackageDir) {
    # Now delete the extract dir
    Remove-Item -Force -Recurse $packageFullName
    Rename-Item -fo $longBinPackageDir $packageFullName
    Write-Host "Renamed $longBinPackageDir to $packageFullName"
}

if (Test-Path $tmpPath) {
    # Now delete the tmp path
    Remove-Item -Force -Recurse $tmpPath
}

# FIxes issue #8
$installScope = 'User'
if ($pp['globalinstall'] -eq 'true') {
  $installScope = 'Machine'
  Write-Host "Install scope set to global."
}
Install-ChocolateyPath "$binPackageDir" -Machine "$installScope"

# Patch the content of files at a certain line
function Write-Patch {
  param( [string] $key
       , [string] $fileName
       , [string] $template
       )

  (Get-Content $fileName) | 
    Foreach-Object {
        if ($_ -match "$key") 
        {
            #Add Lines after the selected pattern 
            "$template"
        }
        $_ # send the current line to output
    } | Set-Content $fileName

}

if (-Not $is32 -and -not $pp['no-workarounds']) {
# HACK: Work around that GHC 9.2.x is missing some components
# See each individual ticket.
#  Write-Host "`nApplying workarounds for GHC 9.2.3: `
#  * Broken depencencies: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/21196 `
#  `
#  These workarounds do not change the compiler only the packaging, to disable re-run with --params=`"'/no-workarounds'`"`n"
}

Write-Host "Hiding shims for `'$binRoot`'."
$files = get-childitem $binRoot -include *.exe -recurse

foreach ($file in $files) {
    #generate an ignore file
    New-Item "$file.ignore" -type file -force | Out-Null
}

# Detect Github Actions
if (($null -ne $Env:GITHUB_ACTIONS) -and ("" -ne $Env:GITHUB_ACTIONS)) {
  echo "$binPackageDir" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_PATH -Encoding utf8 -Append
}

# Detect Azure Pipelines (Fixes issue #9)
if (($null -ne $Env:TF_BUILD) -and ("" -ne $Env:TF_BUILD)) {
  Write-Host "##vso[task.prependpath]$binPackageDir"
}

if (($null -ne $Env:TRAVIS) -and ("" -ne $Env:TRAVIS)) {
  Write-Host "Configuring Travis aliases."
  # We need to fix up refreshenv for Travis
  $rc = $Env:HOME + "/.bashrc"

  Add-Content $rc "function refreshenv
{
  powershell -NonInteractive - <<\EOF
Import-Module -Force `"`$env:ChocolateyInstall\helpers\chocolateyProfile.psm1`"
`$pref = `$ErrorActionPreference
`$ErrorActionPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'
Update-SessionEnvironment
`$ErrorActionPreference = `$pref
# Round brackets in variable names cause problems with bash
Get-ChildItem env:* | %{
  if (!(`$_.Name.Contains('('))) {
    `$value = `$_.Value
    if (`$_.Name -eq 'PATH') {
      `$value = `$value -replace ';',':'
    }
    Write-Output (`"export `" + `$_.Name + `"='`" + `$value + `"'`")
  }
} | Out-File -Encoding ascii $env:TEMP\refreshenv.sh
EOF

  source `"$env:TEMP/refreshenv.sh`"
}

alias RefreshEnv=refreshenv"

  Write-Host "Ok, updated ~/.bashrc, source to use refreshenv."
}
tools\chocolateyUninstall.ps1
$version     = '9.6.1'
$packageName = 'ghc'
$url         = 'https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.5/ghc-8.6.5-i386-unknown-mingw32.tar.xz'
$binSha256   = '6dc0e79a37510905074bcf7e8af9014bd5f899791a6739876ef703de9011e0e6'
$variant     = ''
$pp          = Get-PackageParameters
if ($pp['integer-simple']) {
  $variant = '-integer-simple'
  $binSha256 = '7abcff01e7cd390860e7f7a64d070b613819a2c21314cadeddac452b2ca03a32'
}
$baseTarget  = 'ghc-' + $version + '-x86_64-unknown-mingw32'
$target      = $baseTarget + $variant
$url64       = 'https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/9.6.1/' + $target + '.tar.xz'
$is32 = (Get-OSArchitectureWidth 32)  -or $env:chocolateyForceX86 -eq 'true'

# Fixes issue #4
if ($pp['installdir']) {
  $binRoot         = $pp['installdir']
} else {
  $binRoot         = Get-ToolsLocation
}
$packageFullName = Join-Path $binRoot ($packageName + '-' + $version)
$binPackageDir   = Join-Path $packageFullName "bin"

if (-Not $is32) {

}

Remove-Item -Force -Recurse $packageFullName

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GHC 9.4.4 16865 Wednesday, December 28, 2022 Approved
GHC 9.4.3.1 616 Wednesday, December 28, 2022 Approved
GHC 9.4.3 3922 Sunday, November 13, 2022 Approved
GHC 9.4.2 13453 Thursday, August 25, 2022 Approved
GHC 9.4.1 2249 Tuesday, August 9, 2022 Approved
GHC 9.2.7 2442 Saturday, March 4, 2023 Approved
GHC 9.2.6 24 Saturday, March 4, 2023 Approved
GHC 9.2.5.1 5485 Wednesday, December 28, 2022 Approved
GHC 9.2.5 581 Sunday, November 13, 2022 Approved
GHC 9.2.4 8551 Tuesday, August 2, 2022 Approved
GHC 9.2.3 13680 Saturday, May 28, 2022 Approved
GHC 9.2.2 17191 Tuesday, March 15, 2022 Approved
GHC 9.2.1 25327 Sunday, November 7, 2021 Approved
GHC 9.0.2 20090 Sunday, December 26, 2021 Approved
GHC 9.0.1 66983 Thursday, March 4, 2021 Approved
GHC 9.0.1-rc1 858 Sunday, January 3, 2021 Exempted
GHC 9.0.1-alpha1 289 Saturday, October 10, 2020 Exempted
GHC 8.10.7 48277 Monday, August 30, 2021 Approved
GHC 8.10.6 10625 Thursday, August 26, 2021 Approved
GHC 8.10.5 5120 Sunday, June 6, 2021 Approved
GHC 8.10.4 26161 Monday, February 8, 2021 Approved
GHC 8.10.3 21845 Thursday, December 24, 2020 Approved
GHC 8.10.2.2 12257 Sunday, November 15, 2020 Approved
GHC 8.10.2.1 8192 Monday, October 12, 2020 Approved
GHC 8.10.2 23736 Sunday, August 9, 2020 Approved
GHC 8.10.1.1 1051 Sunday, November 15, 2020 Approved
GHC 8.10.1 22012 Tuesday, March 24, 2020 Approved
GHC 8.10.1-alpha1 178 Wednesday, November 27, 2019 Approved
GHC 8.8.4.1 26498 Sunday, November 15, 2020 Approved
GHC 8.8.4 5426 Thursday, July 16, 2020 Approved
GHC 8.8.3.1 267 Sunday, November 15, 2020 Approved
GHC 8.8.3 4428 Friday, February 28, 2020 Approved
GHC 8.8.2.1 290 Sunday, November 15, 2020 Approved
GHC 8.8.2 3000 Friday, January 31, 2020 Approved
GHC 8.8.1 4881 Friday, August 30, 2019 Approved
GHC 8.8.1-alpha1 68 Saturday, April 27, 2019 Exempted
GHC 8.8.1-alpha01 187 Sunday, April 28, 2019 Approved
GHC 8.6.5 63616 Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Approved
GHC 8.6.5-rc1 176 Monday, April 8, 2019 Approved
GHC 8.6.4 3659 Sunday, March 24, 2019 Approved
GHC 8.6.2 4784 Tuesday, November 6, 2018 Approved
GHC 8.6.1.1 1893 Saturday, September 22, 2018 Approved
GHC 8.6.1-beta1 234 Saturday, August 11, 2018 Approved
GHC 8.6.1-alpha2-1 274 Tuesday, July 17, 2018 Approved
GHC 8.6.1-alpha1 251 Saturday, June 30, 2018 Approved
GHC 8.4.4 25946 Tuesday, October 16, 2018 Approved
GHC 8.4.3 3612 Tuesday, May 29, 2018 Approved
GHC 8.4.2 1634 Friday, April 20, 2018 Approved
GHC 8.4.1 1480 Thursday, March 8, 2018 Approved
GHC 8.4.1-rc1 291 Monday, February 26, 2018 Approved
GHC 8.4.1-alpha3 272 Wednesday, February 7, 2018 Approved
GHC 8.4.1-alpha2 292 Wednesday, January 24, 2018 Approved
GHC 8.4.1-alpha1 323 Friday, December 22, 2017 Approved
GHC 8.2.2 10284 Tuesday, November 21, 2017 Approved
GHC 8.2.2-rc1 340 Saturday, October 21, 2017 Approved
GHC 8.2.1 2493 Saturday, August 12, 2017 Approved
GHC 8.2.1-rc3 392 Friday, July 7, 2017 Exempted
GHC 8.2.1-rc2 434 Friday, July 7, 2017 Exempted
GHC 8.2.1-rc1 352 Friday, April 21, 2017 Exempted
GHC 8.0.2.2 3393 Sunday, July 9, 2017 Approved
GHC 8.0.2.1 1181 Friday, April 21, 2017 Approved
GHC 8.0.2 9451 Thursday, February 2, 2017 Approved
GHC 8.0.2-rc2 383 Friday, December 23, 2016 Exempted
GHC 8.0.2-rc1 379 Friday, December 23, 2016 Exempted
GHC 8.0.1 6690 Friday, June 10, 2016 Approved
GHC 7.10.3.2 3407 Sunday, July 9, 2017 Approved
GHC 7.10.2.1 285 Sunday, February 25, 2018 Approved
GHC 7.10.1.1 278 Sunday, February 25, 2018 Approved
GHC 7.8.4.1 2591 Sunday, February 25, 2018 Approved
GHC 7.8.3.1 302 Sunday, February 25, 2018 Approved
GHC 7.8.2.1 268 Sunday, February 25, 2018 Approved
GHC 7.8.1.1 276 Sunday, February 25, 2018 Approved
GHC 7.6.3.1 1507 Sunday, February 25, 2018 Approved
GHC 7.6.2.1 291 Sunday, February 25, 2018 Approved
GHC 7.6.1.1 296 Sunday, February 25, 2018 Approved
GHC 7.4.2 680 Sunday, June 21, 2015 Approved
GHC 7.4.1 378 Sunday, June 21, 2015 Approved
GHC 7.2.2 503 Sunday, June 21, 2015 Exempted
GHC 7.2.1 411 Sunday, June 21, 2015 Exempted
GHC 7.0.4 381 Sunday, June 21, 2015 Exempted
GHC 7.0.3 372 Sunday, June 21, 2015 Exempted
GHC 7.0.2 394 Sunday, June 21, 2015 Exempted
GHC 7.0.1 425 Sunday, June 21, 2015 Exempted
GHC 6.12.3 421 Sunday, June 21, 2015 Exempted
GHC 6.12.2 373 Sunday, June 21, 2015 Exempted
GHC 6.12.1 347 Sunday, June 21, 2015 Exempted
GHC 6.10.4 391 Sunday, June 21, 2015 Exempted
GHC 6.10.3 430 Sunday, June 21, 2015 Exempted
GHC 6.10.2 355 Sunday, June 21, 2015 Exempted
GHC 6.10.1 393 Sunday, June 21, 2015 Exempted

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