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The Emacs front-end is available from stable MELPA. This package should always be compatible with the latest version of ghc-mod from hackage.
To use stable stable MELPA add this to your .emacs:
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("melpa" . "https://stable.melpa.org/packages/"))
(package-initialize)With this configuration you can install the Emacs front end from MELPA (the
package is called ghc there, not ghc-mod) and install the
ghc-mod/ghc-modi binaries from hackage by doing:
% cabal update && cabal install ghc-modghc-mod works fine for users of Nix who follow a recent version of the
package database such as the nixos-15.09 or nixos-unstable channel. Just
include the package ghc-mod into your ghcWithPackages environment like any
other library. The Nixpkgs Haskell User's
Guide
covers this subject in great detail.
The easiest way to hack on ghc-mod is compile it, then add dist/build/ghc-mod
and dist/build/ghc-modi to your PATH and add the elisp/ directory to your
Emacs load-path.
Make sure you're not using the MELPA version of ghc.el otherwise you might get
all sorts of nasty conflicts.
To customize the package databases used by ghc-mod, put a file called ghc-mod.package-db-stack beside the .cabal file with the following syntax:
temp directory root
package db 1
...
package db n
each package database line is either a path to a package database, or global or user.