I am trying to develop a small project in Haskell. GHCup is the officially provided installer for GHC ( compiler ) and for Haskell development tools such as Haskell language server, ghci, ghcid, cabal, and stack. I was following the directions for installation of GHCup on FreeBSD ( https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/install ) but installation on FreeBSD 13.2 failed due to error, "Unable to find a download for the requested version/distro". When I inquired to GHCup development team I was informed that, "GHC has dropped explicit support for FreeBSD. New releases don't have upstream bindists." ( https://github.com/haskell/ghcup-hs/issues/834 )
Fresh ports does allow for install of GHC and cabal, but it seems that GHCup seems to be the preferred way to manage the Haskell toolchain for much of the Haskell user community and is referenced by many Haskell tutorials. I'm not sure what can be done about this but wanted to bring it to the attention of the FreeBSD community.
Fresh ports does allow for install of GHC and cabal, but it seems that GHCup seems to be the preferred way to manage the Haskell toolchain for much of the Haskell user community and is referenced by many Haskell tutorials. I'm not sure what can be done about this but wanted to bring it to the attention of the FreeBSD community.