botiut/stack-arm.org

#+title: Installing stack on ARM64
#+author: Annwan
#+date: 2022:03:04
#+options: h:1 num:nil toc:nil

** Why stack on ARM

People might want to run haskell applications on ARM devices like a
Raspberry Pi. The Haskell compiler has supported the architecture
through LLVM for a couple of year now, as well as the builtin dependency
manager, Cabal. However the dependency management of Cabal is
system-wide (or at least user wide) and, because all packages interact
with each other, it can pose problems with compatibility.

That is the problem that =stack= solves by allowing for reproducible,
isolated environement for each project, and a lot of projects now use
stack for their dependency and version management.

However stack does not provide any build for arm systems, we thus need
to install it anoter way

** Contents

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