From 3bf6913a151df4c537fe78a0999120c5c676c4f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sorin Sbarnea Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 12:01:28 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Documented binary cabal install for MacOS Installing haskell binaries is 50x faster than compiling it from source. --- README.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index bf580b6..72151ce 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -147,6 +147,12 @@ This section describes how to build ShellCheck from a source directory. ShellChe ShellCheck is built and packaged using Cabal. Install the package `cabal-install` from your system's package manager (with e.g. `apt-get`, `brew`, `emerge`, `yum`, or `zypper`). +On MacOS (OS X), you can do a fast install of Cabal using brew, which takes a couple of minutes instead of more than 30 minutes if you try to compile it from source. + + brew install cask + brew cask install haskell-platform + cabal install cabal-install + On MacPorts, the package is instead called `hs-cabal-install`, while native Windows users should install the latest version of the Haskell platform from https://www.haskell.org/platform/ Verify that `cabal` is installed and update its dependency list with