ghc
brew install ghcAlso known as: ghc@9, ghc@9.14
Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System
License: BSD-3-Clause
Development: Pull requests
Formula JSON API: /api/formula/ghc.json
Formula code: ghc.rb on GitHub
Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:
| macOS on Apple Silicon |
golden gate | ✅ |
|---|---|---|
| tahoe | ✅ | |
| sequoia | ✅ | |
| sonoma | ✅ | |
| macOS on Intel |
sonoma | ✅ |
| Linux | ARM64 | ✅ |
| x86_64 | ✅ |
Current versions:
| stable | ✅ | 9.14.1 |
| head | ⚡️ | HEAD |
Other versions:
| ghc@9.12 | 9.12.4 | Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System |
| ghc@9.10 | 9.10.3 | Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System |
| ghc@9.8 | 9.8.4 | Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System |
| ghc@9.6 | 9.6.7 | Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System |
| ghc@9.4 | 9.4.8 | Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System |
Depends on:
| gmp | 6.3.0 | GNU multiple precision arithmetic library |
Depends on when building from source:
| autoconf | 2.73 | Automatic configure script builder |
| automake | 1.20 | Tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles |
| python@3.15 | 3.15.2 | Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language |
| sphinx-doc | 9.2.0 | Tool to create intelligent and beautiful documentation |
| xz | 5.8.4 | General-purpose data compression with high compression ratio |
Uses from macOS: m4 (build), libffi, ncurses
Binaries:
ghc,
ghc-9.14.1,
ghc-pkg,
ghc-pkg-9.14.1,
ghci,
ghci-9.14.1,
haddock,
haddock-ghc-9.14.1,
hp2ps,
hp2ps-ghc-9.14.1,
hpc,
hpc-ghc-9.14.1,
hsc2hs,
hsc2hs-ghc-9.14.1,
runghc,
runghc-9.14.1,
runhaskell,
runhaskell-9.14.1
GitHub Packages downloads:
| Last 30 days | 14,816 |
|---|---|
| Downloads | 501,629 |
| Analytics install events (30 days) | 2,992 |
| Downloads / install events (30 days) | 5.0× |
Source: GitHub Packages, fetched 2026-11-12T00:53:58Z. Analytics dates: 2026-10-13 to 2026-11-12. Totals exclude downloads from Bintray before the migration to GitHub Packages. Downloads and install attempts measure different things; the difference does not count analytics opt-outs. Definitions and limitations.
Analytics:
| 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Installs | 2,990 | 7,588 | 17,751 |
Installs (--HEAD) | 2 | 4 | 14 |
| Installs on Request | 258 | 645 | 4,077 |
Installs on Request (--HEAD) | 2 | 4 | 14 |
| Build Errors | 28 | ||
Build Errors (--HEAD) | 2 |