The sbv library can be installed simply by issuing cabal install like this: cabal install sbv Once the installation is done, you will get the Data.SBV library. The installation will also put a binary named SBVUnitTests in your .cabal/bin directory (or wherever you installed it.) It's highly recommended that you run this program to ensure everything is working correctly. In particular, you will first need to install Z3, the default SMT solver used by sbv, from Microsoft. (You can get it from Please make sure that the "z3" executable is in your path. Once you have installed sbv, you can use it in your Haskell programs by simply importing the Data.SBV module.