ghc-boot

Shared functionality between GHC and its boot libraries

Version on this page:	8.6.3
LTS Haskell 24.28:	9.10.3
Stackage Nightly 2026-01-14:	9.12.3
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-8.6.3@sha256:9e99a8bbca2312a23a6d2b642cae01cd5668de8e526391a37bd9ab1a3efbe594,1930

Module documentation for 8.6.3

Depends on 6 packages(full list with versions):

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

Used by 5 packages in lts-13.10(full list with versions):

ghc, ghc-exactprint, ghci, hint, hsdev

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.