Welcome to the Cabal User Guide

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. A tool for working with packages
  • 1.2. What’s in a package
  • 1.3. Cabal featureset
  • 1.4. Similar systems
• 2. Configuration and Installing Packages
  • 2.1. Configuration
  • 2.2. Building and installing packages
• 3. Package Concepts and Development
  • 3.1. Quickstart
  • 3.2. Package concepts
  • 3.3. Developing packages
• 4. Reporting Bugs and Stability of Cabal Interfaces
  • 4.1. Reporting bugs and deficiencies
  • 4.2. Stability of Cabal interfaces
• 5. Nix-style Local Builds
  • 5.1. Quickstart
  • 5.2. How it works
  • 5.3. Commands
  • 5.4. Configuring builds with cabal.project