Elm-lang installation from Source

Recently I started to learn Elm-lang to get comfort in the functional world.

This post could be useful for people who try to install Elm-lang.

http://elm-lang.org/ site providing guide to use npm-installer , but this guide is some what different which try to install from the git source. Yes, It will download the raw source code and build the platform for you. It requires Haskel and cabal to make the Elm platfrom from the source.

sudo apt-get install ghc-7.10.1

sudo apt-get install cabal-install-1.22

cabal --version

ghc --version

which cabal

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elm-lang/elm-platform/master/installers/BuildFromSource.hs > BuildFromSource.hs

runhaskell BuildFromSource.hs 0.17

export PATH=/home/ranjithrajd/rspace/software/elm/Elm-Platform/0.15.1/.cabal-sandbox/bin:$PATH

cd /home/ranjithrajd/rspace/tutorial/elm/project

Compile your elm code elm-make

Start the server elm-reactor

Install elm html module to the project elm package install evancz/elm-html