ghc-boot

Shared functionality between GHC and its boot libraries

Version on this page:	8.4.3
LTS Haskell 24.24:	9.10.3
Stackage Nightly 2025-07-14:	9.10.2
Latest on Hackage:	9.14.1

See all snapshots ghc-boot appears in

BSD-3-Clause licensed

Maintained by [email protected]

This version can be pinned in stack with:ghc-boot-8.4.3@sha256:51b8ac494ee10ff02bc9b62d3c0ab1086e9e0a60f1478ae4ed071a0eb3d1c02b,1740

Module documentation for 8.4.3

Depends on 6 packages(full list with versions):

base, binary, bytestring, directory, filepath, ghc-boot-th

Used by 6 packages in lts-12.14(full list with versions):

clash-ghc, ghc, ghc-exactprint, ghci, hint, ihaskell

This library is shared between GHC, ghc-pkg, and other boot libraries.

A note about GHC.PackageDb: it only deals with the subset of the package database that the compiler cares about: modules paths etc and not package metadata like description, authors etc. It is thus not a library interface to ghc-pkg and is not suitable for modifying GHC package databases.

The package database format and this library are constructed in such a way that while ghc-pkg depends on Cabal, the GHC library and program do not have to depend on Cabal.

Changes

8.0.1 May 2016

Bundled with GHC 8.0.1
Initial version