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cabal-add: Extend Cabal build-depends from the command line

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Extend Cabal build-depends from the command line. It works on any sectioned Cabal file, supports stanzas and conditional blocks, and preserves original formatting.

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Versions [RSS] 0.1, 0.2, 0.2.1
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Dependencies base (<5), bytestring (<0.13), Cabal (>=3.8 && <3.19), cabal-add, cabal-install (>=3.12 && <3.19), Cabal-syntax (>=3.8 && <3.19), containers (<0.9), directory (<1.4), filepath (<1.6), mtl (<2.4), optparse-applicative (>=0.16 && <0.20) [details]
Tested with ghc ==9.14.1, ghc ==9.12.2, ghc ==9.10.3, ghc ==9.8.4, ghc ==9.6.7, ghc ==9.4.8
License BSD-3-Clause
Author Bodigrim
Maintainer andrew.lelechenko@gmail.com
Uploaded by Bodigrim at 2026-07-01T19:47:03Z
Category Development
Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/Bodigrim/cabal-add.git
Distributions LTSHaskell:0.2
Executables cabal-add
Downloads 466 total (14 in the last 30 days)
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Readme for cabal-add-0.2.1

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cabal-add Hackage Stackage LTS Stackage Nightly

Extend Cabal build-depends from the command line.

cabal-add does not have limitations of cabal-edit: it works on any sectioned Cabal file, supports stanzas and conditional blocks, and preserves original formatting.

Install the executable with

cabal install cabal-add

To add a dependency on foo, switch to a folder with your project and execute

cabal-add foo

If you are using Cabal 3.12+ which supports external commands, you can omit the dash:

cabal add foo

Command-line arguments:

  • --project-file FILE

    Set the path of the cabal.project file. Detect cabal.project or *.cabal in the current folder, if omitted.

  • ARGS

    Optional target (wildcards such as exe, test or bench are supported) to update, followed by a non-empty list of package(s) to add to build-depends section. Version bounds can be provided as well, use quotes to escape comparisons from your shell. E. g., 'foo < 0.2'.