This repository provides a Docker image for ghcup, a tool for managing GHC (Glasgow Haskell Compiler), Cabal, and Stack on Ubuntu. The image simplifies setting up a Haskell development environment in a containerized manner.
The image is available on Docker Hub. You can check it out here.
- Installs GHC, Cabal, and Stack using
ghcupon Ubuntu. - Allows reproducible Haskell development environments via Docker.
- Provides flexibility to modify versions of GHC, Cabal, and Stack at build time.
Ensure you have Docker installed on your system. If not, you can follow the official Docker installation guide here.
The Docker image is based on Ubuntu 22.04 (ARG UBUNTU_VERSION=22.04). The following components are installed:
- GHC: Version
9.4.8(modifiable via build arguments). - Cabal: Version
3.12.1.0(modifiable via build arguments). - Stack: Version
3.1.1(modifiable via build arguments).
The image also installs ghcup, a tool that simplifies the installation and management of Haskell-related tools.
To build the Docker image locally, run the following command from the root of the repository:
docker build -t ghcup:22 .This will build the image with the tag ghcup:22, using the versions of GHC, Cabal, and Stack specified in the Dockerfile. You can customize these versions by passing build arguments when building the image:
docker build --build-arg GHC=9.4.8 --build-arg CABAL=3.12.1.0 --build-arg STACK=3.1.1 -t ghcup:custom .Once the image is built, you can run it interactively with:
docker run -it --rm ghcup:22This will start a new container and open a shell session. The container will automatically be removed when you exit.
To persist data or mount local directories into the container, use the -v option:
docker run -it --rm -v /path/to/local/directory:/path/in/container ghcup:22Replace /path/to/local/directory with the path to your local directory and /path/in/container with the path inside the container where you want the directory to be mounted.