Summary: The MinGHC project has now finished.

The MinGHC project was started to produce a minimal Windows installer which didn't contain many packages, but which could install many packages - in particular the network package. But time has moved on, and Stack now offers everything MinGHC does, but cross-platform and better. To install GHC using Stack, just do stack setup , then stack exec -- my command . Even if you prefer to use Cabal, stack exec -- cabal install hlint is a reasonable approach.

A few final remarks on MinGHC: