This builds a fully statically linked stack executable that should work on any 64-bit Linux distribution.
It uses nix to build everything, including ghc, against the musl libc.
$(nix-build --no-link -A fullBuildScript --argstr stackDir /absolute/path/to/stack/source)
We use the $(nix-build ...) script approach in order to pin the version of nix itself for reproducibility, and because the call to stack2nix needs Internet access and thus has to run outside of the nix build sandbox.
If you get an error such as:
stack2nix: user error (No such package foo-1.2.3.4 in the cabal database. Did you run cabal update?)
then update the hackageSnapshot date in default.nix to a date that includes the package and version.
You can use the caches described in the top-level README for faster building.
Static stack binaries I built this way, for download:
- The official static stack v2.1.3 release is built using this
- The official static stack v2.1.1 release is built using this
- The official static stack v1.9.3 release is built using this
- stack v1.7.1 for 64-bit Linux
- stack v1.6.5 for 64-bit Linux