ghc@9.8 (deprecated)

Disable date: 2026-12-08

Install command:
brew install ghc@9.8

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@9.8.json

Formula code: ghc@9.8.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

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

Current versions:

stable ✅ 9.8.4

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@9.6 9.6.7 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
xz 5.8.4 General-purpose data compression with high compression ratio

Uses from macOS: m4 (build), ncurses

Requires: macOS <= 26 (build)

Binaries: ghc, ghc-9.8.4, ghc-pkg, ghc-pkg-9.8.4, ghci, ghci-9.8.4, haddock, haddock-ghc-9.8.4, hp2ps, hp2ps-ghc-9.8.4, hpc, hpc-ghc-9.8.4, hsc2hs, hsc2hs-ghc-9.8.4, runghc, runghc-9.8.4, runhaskell, runhaskell-9.8.4

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