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-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.6.3.nix5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.6.3.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.6.3.nix
index 4e1f0dd9fc72..c57e4d96ae2e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.6.3.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/8.6.3.nix
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
 
 , libiconv ? null, ncurses
 
+, # GHC can be built with system libffi or a bundled one.
+  libffi ? null
+
 , useLLVM ? !stdenv.targetPlatform.isx86 || (stdenv.targetPlatform.isMusl && stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.targetPlatform)
 , # LLVM is conceptually a run-time-only depedendency, but for
   # non-x86, we need LLVM to bootstrap later stages, so it becomes a
@@ -65,6 +68,7 @@ let
 
   # Splicer will pull out correct variations
   libDeps = platform: stdenv.lib.optional enableTerminfo [ ncurses ]
+    ++ [libffi]
     ++ stdenv.lib.optional (!enableIntegerSimple) gmp
     ++ stdenv.lib.optional (platform.libc != "glibc" && !targetPlatform.isWindows) libiconv;
 
@@ -149,6 +153,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
   configureFlags = [
     "--datadir=$doc/share/doc/ghc"
     "--with-curses-includes=${ncurses.dev}/include" "--with-curses-libraries=${ncurses.out}/lib"
+  ] ++ stdenv.lib.optionals (libffi != null) ["--with-system-libffi" "--with-ffi-includes=${libffi}/include" "--with-ffi-libraries=${libffi}/lib"
   ] ++ stdenv.lib.optional (targetPlatform == hostPlatform && !enableIntegerSimple) [
     "--with-gmp-includes=${targetPackages.gmp.dev}/include" "--with-gmp-libraries=${targetPackages.gmp.out}/lib"
   ] ++ stdenv.lib.optional (targetPlatform == hostPlatform && hostPlatform.libc != "glibc" && !targetPlatform.isWindows) [