GHC musl

Unofficial binary distributions of GHC on Alpine Linux.

The multi‑arch (linux/amd64, linux/arm64/v8) docker image used to build the statically linked Linux amd64 and arm64 binary releases of

• Pandoc
• Stack
• Juvix

Credit to

• @odidev for ghc-bootstrap-aarch64¹
  and
• @neosimsim for neosimsim—Docker build images

who laid the groundwork for this.

Credit to

• Celeste of Alpine for GHC bootstrap riscv64²

who made it possible to add linux/riscv64 images (GHC versions ≥ 9.10.1).

Table of Contents

• Prerequisites
• Install
• Usage
• Similar projects
• Contributing
• License

Prerequisites

This project requires an installation of docker.

Install

To install docker, follow the instructions for your platform:

• Install Docker Engine | Docker Documentation > Supported platforms
• Post-installation steps for Linux

Usage

Build image

latest:

docker build \
  --build-arg GHC_VERSION=9.12.1 \
  --build-arg CABAL_VERSION=3.14.1.0 \
  --build-arg STACK_VERSION=3.1.1 \
  -t ghc-musl \
  -f latest.Dockerfile .

version:

docker build \
  -t ghc-musl:MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH \
  -f prior/MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH.Dockerfile .

For MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH GHC versions 8.8.4, 8.10.1 and ≥ 8.10.4.

👉 See the Version Matrix for detailed information.

Run container

self built:

docker run --rm -ti ghc-musl[:MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH]

from Quay:

docker run --rm -ti quay.io/benz0li/ghc-musl[:MAJOR[.MINOR[.PATCH]]]

from Docker Hub:

docker run --rm -ti docker.io/benz0li/ghc-musl[:MAJOR[.MINOR[.PATCH]]]

from GitLab (b-data GmbH):

docker run --rm -ti glcr.b-data.ch/ghc/ghc-musl[:MAJOR[.MINOR[.PATCH]]]

As of 2023‑08‑12, the images (versions 9.2.8, 9.4.6, 9.6.2 and later) also include the Haskell Tool Stack (Stack).

On 2024‑02‑23, the binary distribution of GHC version 9.8.2 was released for Alpine Linux (AArch64).
❗ Use flags --no-install-ghc --system-ghc with Stack (GHC versions < 9.8.2) to ensure that only the GHC available in the container is used.

Dev Containers

The default Dev Container is meant to work on this repository.

Any other configuration is a custom GHC container based on GHC musl.

For further information, see Dev Containers.

Similar projects

• utdemir/ghc-musl
• fpco/alpine-haskell-stack

What makes this project different:

1. Multi‑arch: linux/amd64, linux/arm64/v8
2. Built using Hadrian³, from source, without docs
3. Built using the LLVM backend
   • flavour: perf+llvm+split_sections

Contributing

PRs accepted. Please submit to the GitLab repository.

This project follows the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct.

License

Copyright © 2021 Olivier Benz

Distributed under the terms of the MIT License.

Footnotes

1. Porting GHC to Linux/AArch64 ↩

2. Porting GHC to Linux/riscv64 ↩

3. GHC versions ≥ 9.2.8. ↩