ghcup-gtk

A GTK4/libadwaita installer for the Haskell toolchain.

It aims to have feature parity with the GHCup TUI.

Development

System Dependencies

Please open a ticket if these are not up to date

libadwaita 1.5 or newer is required. Older releases lack AdwAboutDialog and AdwAlertDialog. Debian 12 (1.2) and Ubuntu 22.04 (1.1) are too old and need a backport; Ubuntu 24.04 (1.5) and current Fedora/Arch are fine.

Fedora

$ sudo dnf install gobject-introspection-devel glib2-devel gtk4-devel libadwaita-devel \
  pango-devel cairo-gobject-devel harfbuzz-devel graphene-devel freetype-devel \
  gdk-pixbuf2-devel zlib-ng-compat-devel xz-devel pkgconf-pkg-config gcc make

Ubuntu/Debian

sudo apt install build-essential pkg-config libgirepository1.0-dev libglib2.0-dev \
  libgtk-4-dev libadwaita-1-dev libpango1.0-dev libcairo2-dev libharfbuzz-dev \
  libgraphene-1.0-dev libfreetype-dev libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-dev zlib1g-dev liblzma-dev

Arch

sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel pkgconf gobject-introspection glib2-devel gtk4 \
  libadwaita pango cairo harfbuzz graphene freetype2 gdk-pixbuf2 zlib xz

Homebrew

brew install pkgconf gobject-introspection glib gtk4 libadwaita pango cairo \
  harfbuzz graphene freetype gdk-pixbuf zlib xz

NixOS

NixOS-based setups are not supported. Please read Haskell#GHCup on the NixOS Wiki

Commands

• make run: compile and start the application
• make test: run the test suite
• make dist: build the release tarball

Verifying release artifacts

Release artifacts are signed with minisign. The public key is release/ghcup-gtk-release.pub in this repository, and is also attached to every release.

To verify an artifact, download it along with its .minisig signature and run:

minisign -Vm <artifact> -P RWQC6/WX3yuYGI32C+DSyRvRM6ES628HyiUHx9A+C8UCGa2JCj6Y2vTr