ghc-boot

Shared functionality between GHC and its boot libraries

Version on this page:9.8.1
LTS Haskell 24.24:9.10.3
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-9.8.1@sha256:254916b9601a31ded1265139eb83592c122a4f597950e2c04375f47c481abb8c,3005

Module documentation for 9.8.1

  • GHC
    • GHC.BaseDir
    • GHC.Data
      • GHC.Data.ShortText
      • GHC.Data.SizedSeq
    • GHC.ForeignSrcLang
    • GHC.HandleEncoding
    • GHC.LanguageExtensions
    • GHC.Platform
      • GHC.Platform.ArchOS
      • GHC.Platform.Host
    • GHC.Serialized
    • GHC.Settings
      • GHC.Settings.Utils
    • GHC.UniqueSubdir
    • GHC.Unit
      • GHC.Unit.Database
    • GHC.Utils
      • GHC.Utils.Encoding
        • GHC.Utils.Encoding.UTF8
    • GHC.Version
Used by 5 packages in nightly-2024-01-10(full list with versions):
ghc, ghc-check, ghc-exactprint, ghc-hs-meta, hint

This library is shared between GHC, ghc-pkg, and other boot libraries. . A note about GHC.Unit.Database: 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