This is a skeleton project structured to use a bunch of tools in the ecosystem. Sometimes those tools play nicely together, and sometimes they don't - this is one configuration in which they do.
- ghc, ghcjs, and all haskell libraries are installed safely and deterministically via nix
- ghc-targeted code can be built with either cabal or stack
- ghcjs-targeted code can be built with cabal (but not stack) using ghcjs
- ghcjs-targeted code can be built with stack, using ghc instead of ghcjs
- intero is available for use from editors, for both codebases
- install the nix environment
- in ghc-code, run either
stack buildorcabal build, as normal - in ghcjs-code, to build with stack and ghc just run
stack build - in ghcjs-code, to build with cabal and ghcjs run
cabal configure --ghcjs && cabal build - in ghcjs-code, to build with cabal and ghc run
rm -r dist; cabal build
To install the nix environment, you have two options
- install it globally, via
nix-env -f /path/to/nix-stack-ghcjs-demo/default.nix -i. You can uninstall/disable it at any time withnix-env -e ghc-and-ghcjs-env - open a nix-shell and run everything inside it, via
nix-shell -p 'import /path/to/nix-stack-ghcjs-demo'
- reflex-platform is used to provide version pinning. It is itself built on top of nix, and it has been carefully put together with versions of various packages that work well together (basically, it takes the pain away from installing ghcjs).
- I have one custom commit at the top of reflex-platform, which updates intero to a newer version (needed by the intero emacs package). If/when reflex-platform updates enough to make this no longer necessary, that can be removed.
- stack is set up to use the 'system' ghc, so it should never try to install anything for you.
- there's only one stack.yaml, which is symlinked inside each of ghc-code/ghcjs-code. It needs to be inside those directories, since stack tooling looks for stack.yaml to find the project boundary, and we want the ghc and ghcjs code to be treated as separate projects.