How To Install ghc-bindings-DSL on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-bindings-DSL in Fedora 36. ghc-bindings-DSL is FFI domain specific language, on top of hsc2hs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-bindings-DSL on Fedora 36.

What is `ghc-bindings-DSL`

This is a set of macros to be used when writing Haskell FFI. They were designed to be able to fully describe C interfaces, so that hsc2hs can extract from them all Haskell code needed to mimic such interfaces. All Haskell names used are automatically derived from C names, structures are mapped to Haskell instances of Storable, and there are also macros you can use with C code to help write bindings to inline functions or macro functions. Documentation is available at package homepage <https The extra module Bindings.Utilities will contain tools that may be convenient when working with FFI.

We can use yum or dnf to install ghc-bindings-DSL on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ghc-bindings-DSL.

Install ghc-bindings-DSL on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ghc-bindings-DSL using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ghc-bindings-DSL

Install ghc-bindings-DSL on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ghc-bindings-DSL using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ghc-bindings-DSL

How To Uninstall ghc-bindings-DSL on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the ghc-bindings-DSL package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ghc-bindings-DSL

ghc-bindings-DSL Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/37
/usr/lib/.build-id/37/142c9b4e320448d18ce57179dc6587fc686867
/usr/lib64/libHSbindings-DSL-1.0.25-HPosvZZry3CGDBnvtEGi5j-ghc8.10.5.so
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-bindings-DSL
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-bindings-DSL/LICENSE

References

ghc-bindings-DSL website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-bindings-DSL on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).