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Remove v2-prefix from Quickstart guide
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tomjaguarpaw authored and ulysses4ever committed Jul 9, 2023
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::

$ cabal v2-build
$ cabal build

To open a GHCi shell with this package, use this command:

::

$ cabal v2-repl
$ cabal repl

To run an executable defined in this package, use this command:

::

$ cabal v2-run <executable name> [executable args]
$ cabal run <executable name> [executable args]

Developing multiple packages
----------------------------
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::

$ cabal v2-build all
$ cabal build all

To build a specific package, you can either run ``v2-build`` from the
To build a specific package, you can either run ``build`` from the
directory of the package in question:

::

$ cd cabal-install
$ cabal v2-build
$ cabal build

or you can pass the name of the package as an argument to
``cabal v2-build`` (this works in any subdirectory of the project):
``cabal build`` (this works in any subdirectory of the project):

::

$ cabal v2-build cabal-install
$ cabal build cabal-install

You can also specify a specific component of the package to build. For
example, to build a test suite named ``package-tests``, use the command:

::

$ cabal v2-build package-tests
$ cabal build package-tests

Targets can be qualified with package names. So to request
``package-tests`` *from* the ``Cabal`` package, use
``Cabal-tests:package-tests``.

Unlike sandboxes, there is no need to setup a sandbox or ``add-source``
projects; just check in ``cabal.project`` to your repository and
``v2-build`` will just work.
``build`` will just work.

Cookbook
========
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profiling: True

Now, ``cabal v2-build`` will automatically build all libraries and
Now, ``cabal build`` will automatically build all libraries and
executables with profiling. You can fine-tune the profiling settings
for each package using :cfg-field:`profiling-detail`::

package p
profiling-detail: toplevel-functions

Alternately, you can call ``cabal v2-build --enable-profiling`` to
Alternately, you can call ``cabal build --enable-profiling`` to
temporarily build with profiling.

How can I have a reproducible set of versions for my dependencies?
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The global package store is ``~/.cabal/store`` (configurable via
global `store-dir` option); if you need to clear your store for
whatever reason (e.g., to reclaim disk space or because the global
store is corrupted), deleting this directory is safe (``v2-build``
store is corrupted), deleting this directory is safe (``build``
will just rebuild everything it needs on its next invocation).

This split motivates some of the UI choices for Nix-style local build
commands. For example, flags passed to ``cabal v2-build`` are only
commands. For example, flags passed to ``cabal build`` are only
applied to *local* packages, so that adding a flag to
``cabal v2-build`` doesn't necessitate a rebuild of *every* transitive
``cabal build`` doesn't necessitate a rebuild of *every* transitive
dependency in the global package store.

In cabal-install 2.0 and above, Nix-style local builds also take advantage of a
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Where are my build products?
----------------------------

A major deficiency in the current implementation of v2-build is that
A major deficiency in the current implementation of build is that
there is no programmatic way to access the location of build products.
The location of the build products is intended to be an internal
implementation detail of v2-build, but we also understand that many
implementation detail of build, but we also understand that many
unimplemented features can only be reasonably worked around by
accessing build products directly.

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``cabal-install`` does caching are an implementation detail and may
change in the future, knowing what gets cached is helpful for
understanding the performance characteristics of invocations to
``v2-build``. The cached intermediate results are stored in
``build``. The cached intermediate results are stored in
``dist-newstyle/cache``; this folder can be safely deleted to clear the
cache.

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already available in the store.)
``source-hashes`` (binary)
The hashes of all local source files. When all local source files of
a local package are unchanged, ``cabal v2-build`` will skip
a local package are unchanged, ``cabal build`` will skip
invoking ``setup build`` entirely (saving us from a possibly
expensive call to ``ghc --make``). The full list of source files
participating in compilation is determined using
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