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Installation information

If you are having difficulty installing the PureScript compiler, feel free to ask for help! The best places are the PureScript Discord or PureScript Discourse.

Requirements

The PureScript compiler is built using GHC 9.2.8, and should be able to run on any operating system supported by GHC 9.2.8. In particular:

  • for Windows users, versions predating Vista are not officially supported,
  • for macOS / OS X users, versions predating Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) are not officially supported.

See also https://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_9_2_8.html for more details about the operating systems which GHC 9.2.8 supports.

Official prebuilt binaries

Each release comes with prebuilt x86-64 binary bundles for Linux, mac OS, and Windows. Users of other operating systems or architectures will likely need to build the compiler from source; see below.

To install a binary bundle, simply extract it and place the purs executable somewhere on your PATH.

Other distributions

There are several other distributions of the PureScript compiler available, which may be more convenient to use in certain setups. This is by no means an exhaustive list, and is presented in no particular order. Many of these distributions are provided and maintained by the community, and may not be immediately up to date following a new release.

  • NPM: npm install -g purescript
  • Homebrew (for macOS): brew install purescript
  • FreeBSD binary packages: pkg install hs-purescript
  • GNU Guix: guix install purescript

Compiling from source

The easiest way is to use stack:

$ stack update
$ stack unpack purescript
$ cd purescript-x.y.z  # (replace x.y.z with whichever version you just downloaded)
$ stack install --flag purescript:RELEASE

This will then copy the compiler executable (purs) into ~/.local/bin.

If you don't have stack installed, please see the stack install documentation.

The "curses" library

Prior to version v0.14.2, the PureScript REPL depends on the curses library by default (via the Haskell package terminfo). If you are having difficulty running the compiler, it may be because the curses library is missing. This problem may appear as a libtinfo error:

error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

On Linux, you will probably need to install ncurses manually. On Ubuntu, for example, this can be done by running:

$ sudo apt install libtinfo5 libncurses5-dev

As of v0.14.2, this should no longer be necessary if you are using the prebuilt binaries or building the compiler from source with the default configuration. However, you can still opt into using curses by setting the Haskeline terminfo flag to true. This may improve the REPL experience slightly - for example, by providing better editing of long input lines.

EACCES error

If you encounter this error while trying to install via npm:

Error: EACCES: permission denied

The best solution is to install Node.js and npm via a node version manager. This error is due to permissions issues when installing packages globally. You can read more about this error in npm's guide to resolving EACCES permissions errors when installing packages globally.