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If your distribution provides a pre-built binary package of a recent
Darcs release, you are strongly encouraged to use that rather than
building Darcs yourself.
If you have (or can install) the cabal-install package, this
is the next best option, as this will resolve build dependencies
automatically. To download, compile and install Darcs and its
dependencies via cabal-install, simply run
cabal update
cabal install darcs
If you cannot install cabal-install, you need to run
ghc --make Setup
./Setup configure
./Setup build
./Setup install
This will require the following build dependencies:
- GHC 6.8 or higher; and
- Cabal 1.6 or higher.
Additional build dependencies are declared in the darcs.cabal
file, and ./Setup configure will tell you if any required
build dependencies aren't found. The build dependencies at time of
writing (Darcs 2.3) are as follows:
- the C library zlib;
- the Haskell packages
- array 1.1 or 1.2;
- containers 1.1 or 1.2;
- directory 1.0;
- filepath 1.1;
- hashed-storage 0.3;
- haskeline 0.6.1 or higher;
- html 1.0;
- mtl 1.0 or 1.1;
- old-time 1.0;
- parsec 2.1 or higher;
- process 1.0;
- random 1.0; and
- regex-compat 0.71 or higher.
Missing optional build dependencies are only listed if
./Setup configure is passed the -verbose argument.
At time of writing they are:
- the C library libcurl (7.19.1 or higher recommended);
- the Haskell packages
- bytestring 0.9;
- bytestring-mmap 0.2 or higher;
- http 3000 or 3001.1;
- network 2.2;
- terminfo 0.3.
- utf8-string 0.3; and
- zlib 0.5.
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