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Is there a `stack run` similar to `cabal run`?

Up until recently, I was executing this beauty to build + run a project with stack:

stack build && .stack-work/install/x86_64-linux/lts-4.1/7.10.3/bin/<project-name>

I was told on IRC that this can be simplified to

stack build && stack exec <project-name>

Can this be simplified even more, to 

stack run

or at least

stack run <project-name>

?

If I recall correctly this was possible with cabal run.

Edit:

@haoformayor's comment is getting close:

alias b='stack build --fast --ghc-options="-Wall" && stack exec'

Although this still needs the project name, right?

I've also started to get close with

function stack-run () { stack build && stack exec `basename "$PWD"` }

Although this only works if the project name matches with the folder name. Maybe we can query cabal/stack for the first executable entry in the .cabal file? Or Maybe we could do it with sed...

Solution

  • I've had quite a good experience using:

    https://hackage.haskell.org/package/stack-run

    Edit 2018-04-05: Relevant stack issue.

    Old answer:

    This is what I ended up doing for now.

    #/usr/bin/env sh

stack build && stack exec `basename "$PWD"` "$@"

    I've put the following into a file named stack-run under my $PATH. ~/.local/bin/stack-run in my case.

    Which allows me to 

    $ stack-run

    in any directory, and even 

    $ stack run

    Since in almost all of my projects the executable of the project bears the same name as the folder, this works. But I hope to extend it with support for differing names as well.

    Edit 2016-09-26: I've also found this, but haven't given it a try yet: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/stack-run