ghc@9.6 (deprecated)

Disable date: 2026-12-08

Install command: 
brew install ghc@9.6

Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System

https://haskell.org/ghc/

License: BSD-3-Clause AND MIT AND (LGPL-3.0-or-later OR GPL-2.0-or-later)

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/ghc@9.6.json

Formula code: ghc@9.6.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon		 tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
ventura ✅
macOS on
Intel		 sonoma ✅
ventura ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 9.6.7

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@9.4 9.4.8 Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System

Keg-only because this is an alternate version of another formula.

Depends on when building from source:

autoconf 2.73 Automatic configure script builder
automake 1.19 Tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles
python@3.14 3.14.7 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
sphinx-doc 9.1.0 Tool to create intelligent and beautiful documentation

Uses from macOS: m4 (build), xz (build), ncurses

Requires: macOS <= 26 (build)

Binaries: ghc, ghc-9.6.7, ghc-pkg, ghc-pkg-9.6.7, ghci, ghci-9.6.7, haddock, haddock-ghc-9.6.7, hp2ps, hp2ps-ghc-9.6.7, hpc, hpc-ghc-9.6.7, hsc2hs, hsc2hs-ghc-9.6.7, runghc, runghc-9.6.7, runhaskell, runhaskell-9.6.7

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