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DISTRIBUTION
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The platform comes in several forms:
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Again: If you want to install the haskell platform, this is NOT the right location. You can download prebuilt installers for most systems from
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*source repo* - This is the source of the system that builds the platform. It
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includes the file that defines the versions of GHC and other packages that make
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up the platform. You can use this to build the platform from just a GHC bindist.
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https://www.haskell.org/platform/
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You can check out the official release from github:
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http://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform
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The master branch is always stable, and releases are tagged like "2014.2.0.0".
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Development usually happens in other branches.
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*source tarball* - This is a specially packaged version of the repo that
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includes the sources of the packages that make up the platform, and excludes
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some of the ancillary things in the source repo. You can use this to build
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the platform without access to hackage or even an internet connection. You still
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need a GHC bindist, as well as cabal and stack binaries, either built from source or
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available from their respective websites.
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From there you can get the following:
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*installer* - For Windows and OS X, the platform is distributed as a standard
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installer for the operating system. It contains a fully built version of the
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has those, you can generally just unpack this tarball, and run a script to
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DISTRIBUTION OF TOOLKIT FOR BUILDING INSTALLERS
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If you really want to get the toolkit to build your _own_ platform installer, then you're in the right spot.
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The platform installer toolkit comes in several forms:
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*source tarball* - This is a specially packaged version of the repo that
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includes the sources of the packages that make up the platform, and excludes
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some of the ancillary things in the source repo. You can use this to build
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the platform without access to hackage or even an internet connection. You still
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need a GHC bindist, as well as cabal and stack binaries, either built from source or
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available from their respective websites.
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This is also available from https://www.haskell.org/platform/
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*source repo* - This is the source of the system that builds the platform. It
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includes the file that defines the versions of GHC and other packages that make
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up the platform. You can use this to build the platform from just a GHC bindist.
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You can check out the official release from github:
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http://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform
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The master branch is always stable, and releases are tagged like "2014.2.0.0".
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Development usually happens in other branches.
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REQUIREMENTS FOR BUILDING
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