The cabal2nix package

The cabal2nix utility converts Cabal files into Nix build instructions. The commandline syntax is:

 Usage: cabal2nix [options] url-to-cabal-file
   -h             --help                   show this help text
                  --sha256=HASH            sha256 hash of source tarball
   -m MAINTAINER  --maintainer=MAINTAINER  maintainer of this package (may be specified multiple times)
   -p PLATFORM    --platform=PLATFORM      supported build platforms (may be specified multiple times)

 Recognized URI schemes:

   cabal://pkgname-pkgversion       download the specified package from Hackage
   http://host/path                 fetch the Cabal file via HTTP
   file:///local/path               load the Cabal file from the local disk
   /local/path                      abbreviated version of file URI

The only required argument is the path to the cabal file. For example:

 cabal2nix http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/cabal2nix/1.30/cabal2nix.cabal
 cabal2nix cabal://cabal2nix-1.30

If the --sha256 option has not been specified, cabal2nix calls nix-prefetch-url to determine the hash automatically. This causes network traffic, obviously.

Properties

Versions	1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 1.18, 1.19, 1.20, 1.21, 1.23, 1.24, 1.25, 1.26, 1.27, 1.28, 1.29, 1.30, 1.31, 1.32, 1.33, 1.34, 1.35, 1.37, 1.38, 1.39, 1.40, 1.41, 1.42, 1.43, 1.44, 1.45, 1.46, 1.47, 1.48, 1.49
Dependencies	base (≥3 & <5), Cabal (≥1.8), containers, directory, filepath, hackage-db, HTTP, mtl, pretty, process, regex-posix
License	BSD3
Copyright	Peter Simons, Andres Loeh
Author	Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to>, Andres Loeh <mail@andres-loeh.de>
Maintainer	Nix Developers <nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl>
Category	Distribution
Home page	http://github.com/NixOS/cabal2nix
Source repository	git clone git://github.com/NixOS/cabal2nix.git
Executables	hackage4nix, cabal2nix
Upload date	Sun Mar 25 19:22:48 UTC 2012
Uploaded by	PeterSimons
Distributions	NixOS: 1.49

Downloads

cabal2nix-1.30.tar.gz (Cabal source package)
package description (included in the package)