# Demonstration of incremental builds for Haskell. Useful for speeding up CI. # # See: https://www.haskellforall.com/2022/12/nixpkgs-support-for-incremental-haskell.html # See: https://felixspringer.xyz/homepage/blog/incrementalHaskellBuildsWithNix { haskell, lib }: let inherit (haskell.lib.compose) overrideCabal; # Incremental builds work with GHC >=9.4. temporary = haskell.packages.ghc944.temporary; # This will do a full build of `temporary`, while writing the intermediate build products # (compiled modules, etc.) to the `intermediates` output. temporary-full-build-with-incremental-output = overrideCabal (drv: { doInstallIntermediates = true; enableSeparateIntermediatesOutput = true; }) temporary; # This will do an incremental build of `temporary` by copying the previously # compiled modules and intermediate build products into the source tree # before running the build. # # GHC will then naturally pick up and reuse these products, making this build # complete much more quickly than the previous one. temporary-incremental-build = overrideCabal (drv: { previousIntermediates = temporary-full-build-with-incremental-output.intermediates; }) temporary; in temporary-incremental-build.overrideAttrs (old: { meta = { maintainers = lib.teams.mercury.members; }; })