ghc-boot

Shared functionality between GHC and its boot libraries

Version on this page:	8.8.2
LTS Haskell 24.17:	9.10.3
Stackage Nightly 2025-07-14:	9.10.2
Latest on Hackage:	9.12.1

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BSD-3-Clause licensed

Maintained by [email protected]

This version can be pinned in stack with:ghc-boot-8.8.2@sha256:7596bcc2eac62d157d0e94bcf8406974ba67e7233e4a4dcf4cc32aebfa7ec6b0,1980

Module documentation for 8.8.2

Depends on 6 packages(full list with versions):

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

Used by 6 packages in lts-15.3(full list with versions):

ghc, ghc-exactprint, ghci, ghc-lib-parser-ex, hint, hlint

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.