From: Marc Espie <marc.espie.openbsd@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Haskell ports without using Hackage
To: David Uhden Collado <david@uhden.dev>
Cc: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2024 10:45:29 +0200

On Sat, Aug 17, 2024 at 07:03:48AM +0200, David Uhden Collado wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have recently started working on a port for the SimpleX Chat CLI client
> [1] and encountered an issue. The software is not available in the Haskell
> package repository [2], which poses a significant challenge since the
> cabal-module(5) used for Haskell ports relies on Hackage.
> 
> My question is: Is there a way to create a port for software written in
> Haskell that is not available in the Haskell package repository?
> 
> Thank you for your assistance.
> 
> Best regards,
> David.
> 
> 1. https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/blob/stable/docs/CLI.md#in-any-os
> 2. https://hackage.haskell.org/packages/search?terms=simplex-chat
> 3. https://man.openbsd.org/cabal-module.5
> 
> 
This mostly means you have to do things manually, like a lot of ports do.
Don't use the cabal module, just BUILD_DEPENDS on ghc, and set variables
according to what you need.