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the correct dependencies. Refer to [the official docs](https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Linux)
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on how to prepare your environment for building GHC.
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### Stack support
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There may be a number of bugs when trying to make ghcup installed GHC versions work with stack,
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such as:
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- https://gitlab.haskell.org/haskell/ghcup-hs/-/issues/188
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Further, stack's upgrade procedure may break/confuse ghcup. There are a number of integration
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issues discussed here:
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- https://gitlab.haskell.org/haskell/ghcup-hs/-/issues/153
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### Windows support
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Windows support is in early stages. Since windows doesn't support symbolic links properly,
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ghcup uses a [shimgen wrapper](https://github.com/71/scoop-better-shimexe). It seems to work
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well, but there may be unknown issues with that approach.
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Windows 7 and Powershell 2.0 aren't well supported at the moment, also see:
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- https://gitlab.haskell.org/haskell/ghcup-hs/-/issues/140
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- https://gitlab.haskell.org/haskell/ghcup-hs/-/issues/197
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## FAQ
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1. Why reimplement stack?
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3. Why the haskell reimplementation?
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:-)
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ghcup started as a portable posix shell script of maybe 50 LOC. GHC installation itself can be carried out in
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about ~3 lines of shell code (download, unpack , configure+make install). However, much convenient functionality
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has been added since, as well as ensuring that all operations are safe and correct. The shell script ended up with
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over 2k LOC, which was very hard to maintain.
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The main concern when switching from a portable shell script to haskell was platform/architecture support.
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However, ghcup now re-uses GHCs CI infrastructure and as such is perfectly in sync with all platforms that
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GHC supports.
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