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Is it possible to change cabal or GHC settings so that cabal install generates dynamic binaries and libraries by default?

I'm using GHC 8.2.2, installed using apt-get in Ubuntu (16.04) without Haskell Platform or stack. Searching around, I found the SO question Why can't cabal build mighttpd2 dynamically? . The answers/comments there said something about adding --enable-shared --enable-executable-dynamic when cabal install. And this can be done manually for all dependency libraries (which would be a pain).

In Small Haskell program compiled with GHC into huge binary, the accepted answer says that one needs to: 

cabal install some_package --enable-shared --reinstall

The option -dynamic is also mentioned.

My question is:

Is it possible to change the options in the cabal configuration file (~/.cabal/config) from the very beginning so that all binaries and their dependency libraries use dynamic linkage (i.e. with --enable-shared --enable-executable-dynamic or -dynamic by default)?

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Indeed, you can alter your ~/.cabal/config file to have the following lines:

shared: True
executable-dynamic: True
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