{"id":16339116,"url":"https://github.com/phadej/ghcjs-ubuntu","last_synced_at":"2025-11-03T10:30:26.888Z","repository":{"id":66242021,"uuid":"310929965","full_name":"phadej/ghcjs-ubuntu","owner":"phadej","description":"Packaging GHCJS for Ubuntu","archived":false,"fork":false,"pushed_at":"2020-11-16T21:51:11.000Z","size":15657,"stargazers_count":3,"open_issues_count":0,"forks_count":0,"subscribers_count":3,"default_branch":"master","last_synced_at":"2024-12-27T04:09:11.277Z","etag":null,"topics":[],"latest_commit_sha":null,"homepage":null,"language":"Haskell","has_issues":true,"has_wiki":null,"has_pages":null,"mirror_url":null,"source_name":null,"license":null,"status":null,"scm":"git","pull_requests_enabled":true,"icon_url":"https://github.com/phadej.png","metadata":{"files":{"readme":"README.md","changelog":null,"contributing":null,"funding":null,"license":null,"code_of_conduct":null,"threat_model":null,"audit":null,"citation":null,"codeowners":null,"security":null,"support":null,"governance":null,"roadmap":null,"authors":null,"dei":null,"publiccode":null,"codemeta":null}},"created_at":"2020-11-07T20:52:32.000Z","updated_at":"2022-06-05T06:56:20.000Z","dependencies_parsed_at":"2023-02-20T16:46:12.008Z","dependency_job_id":null,"html_url":"https://github.com/phadej/ghcjs-ubuntu","commit_stats":null,"previous_names":[],"tags_count":0,"template":false,"template_full_name":null,"repository_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/phadej%2Fghcjs-ubuntu","tags_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/phadej%2Fghcjs-ubuntu/tags","releases_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/phadej%2Fghcjs-ubuntu/releases","manifests_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/phadej%2Fghcjs-ubuntu/manifests","owner_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/owners/phadej","download_url":"https://codeload.github.com/phadej/ghcjs-ubuntu/tar.gz/refs/heads/master","host":{"name":"GitHub","url":"https://github.com","kind":"github","repositories_count":239412471,"owners_count":19634016,"icon_url":"https://github.com/github.png","version":null,"created_at":"2022-05-30T11:31:42.601Z","updated_at":"2022-07-04T15:15:14.044Z","host_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub","repositories_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories","repository_names_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repository_names","owners_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/owners"}},"keywords":[],"created_at":"2024-10-10T23:53:30.854Z","updated_at":"2025-11-03T10:30:26.821Z","avatar_url":"https://github.com/phadej.png","language":"Haskell","funding_links":[],"categories":[],"sub_categories":[],"readme":"# Packaging GHCJS for Ubuntu (or Debian)\n\nThis setup is based on HVR's ppa/ghcjs: https://launchpad.net/~hvr/+archive/ubuntu/ghcjs,\nwhich atm provides only GHCJS-8.4\n\n## Building in docker\n\n### Bionic\n\n```bash\ndocker run --rm -ti --entrypoint=/bin/bash phadej/ghc:8.6.5-bionic\n```\n\n```bash\nmkdir /tmp/ghcjs-build\ncd /tmp/ghcjs-build\n\napt-get update\napt-get install -y debhelper cabal-install-3.4 cabal-install-3.2 nodejs nodejs-dev npm node-gyp libssl1.0-dev\n\ngit clone https://github.com/phadej/ghcjs-ubuntu.git\ncd ghcjs-ubuntu\n\ncd ghcjs-8.6\ntime dpkg-buildpackage -i -us -uc -b\n```\n\nReferences:\n- https://askubuntu.com/questions/1088662/npm-depends-node-gyp-0-10-9-but-it-is-not-going-to-be-installed\n\n### Focal\n\n```bash\ndocker run --rm -ti --entrypoint=/bin/bash phadej/ghc:8.6.5-focal\n```\n\n```bash\ncd\napt-get update\napt-get install -y debhelper cabal-install-3.4 cabal-install-3.2 nodejs npm\n\ngit clone https://github.com/phadej/ghcjs-ubuntu.git\ncd ghcjs-ubuntu\n\ncd ghcjs-8.6\ntime dpkg-buildpackage -i -us -uc -b\n```\n\n## Steps to package GHCJS\n\nIn other words: How this repository contents are assembled.\n\n- Prepare GHCJS source tree:\n  - Checkout correct branch:  `git checkout ghc-8.6-ubuntu`\n  - Make sure it is clean: `git clean -fdx \u0026\u0026 git submodule foreach --recursive git clean -fdx`\n  - Apply GHC patch `cat | patch -p1`\n- Create `boot.tar`: `./utils/makePackages.sh`\n- Create sdists: `cabal v2-sdist all`\n- Copy all sdists to `upstream/` subfolder\n- Extract the `ghcjs-\u003cversion\u003e.tar.gz` package, remove that tarball from `upstream/`\n- Generate dependencies `plan.json`: `cabal build --dry --project-file=cabal.deps.project all`\n- Use `cabal-bundler` to make curl download script: `cabal-bundler --curl --plan dist-newstyle/cache/plan.json ghcjs -o dependencies/download.sh`\n- Download dependencies `(cd dependencies \u0026\u0026 sh download.sh)`\n- Create \"original\" tarball: `tar -czvf ghcjs-8.6_8.6.0.1.orig.tar.gz --exclude=cabal.rc --exclude='debian/*' --exclude='dist-newstyle/*' ghcjs-8.6`. You should get around 16M tarball.\n- Finally, we can build the package, for example `dpkg-buildpackage -i -us -uc -b`\n\n## GHC patch(es)\n\nWe need to patch GHC-8.6 tree. https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/4420\n\n```patch\ndiff --git a/libraries/base/base.cabal b/libraries/base/base.cabal\nindex f02ff0827c..8ae64a8351 100644\n--- a/libraries/base/base.cabal\n+++ b/libraries/base/base.cabal\n@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@\n-cabal-version:  2.1\n+cabal-version:  2.2\n name:           base\n version:        4.12.0.0\n -- NOTE: Don't forget to update ./changelog.md\ndiff --git a/libraries/ghc-heap/ghc-heap.cabal.in b/libraries/ghc-heap/ghc-heap.cabal.in\nindex 6f9bd2d756..d7ab6c38bc 100644\n--- a/libraries/ghc-heap/ghc-heap.cabal.in\n+++ b/libraries/ghc-heap/ghc-heap.cabal.in\n@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@\n-cabal-version:  2.1\n+cabal-version:  2.2\n name:           ghc-heap\n version:        @ProjectVersionMunged@\n license:        BSD-3-Clause\ndiff --git a/libraries/ghc-prim/ghc-prim.cabal b/libraries/ghc-prim/ghc-prim.cabal\nindex a95f1ecaa8..e6bf7fb624 100644\n--- a/libraries/ghc-prim/ghc-prim.cabal\n+++ b/libraries/ghc-prim/ghc-prim.cabal\n@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@\n-cabal-version:  2.1\n+cabal-version:  2.2\n name:           ghc-prim\n version:        0.5.3\n -- NOTE: Don't forget to update ./changelog.md\n```\n\n## Gotchas\n\n### ghc-prim\n\nThis is tricky package to build.\n`cabal-install-3.4` doesn't like no `custom-setup` in `build-type: Custom`\npackage, but that causes cascade of effects.\nTherefore we use `cabal-install-3.2` to boot GHCJS.\n\n## Misc\n\n- https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/Intro?action=show\u0026redirect=IntroDebianPackaging\n- Does GHCJS depend on npm at runtime?\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fphadej%2Fghcjs-ubuntu","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fphadej%2Fghcjs-ubuntu","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fphadej%2Fghcjs-ubuntu/lists"}