This week I've started reading Haskell Programming From First Principles and authors recommend using Stack I went through installing it on two machines. Unfortunately, the docs are a little wordy so I've made a post that will contain only steps that were relevant for me.

Generic setup #

1. curl -sSL https://get.haskellstack.org/ | sh
2. stack new helloworld
3. cd helloworld
4. If you follow the book then jump to Custom setup for the book
5. stack setup
6. stack build
7. stack exec helloworld-exe (notice added -exe)

Custom setup for the book #

5. Change stack.yml:

# from
resolver: lts-15.1
packages:
- .

# to (book version)
resolver: lts-13.24
packages: []

6. stack setup
7. stack ghci
   • stack build and stack exec helloworld-exe won't work for you.

Other resources #

• An opinionated beginner's guide to Haskell in mid 2019.

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