diff --git a/lib/hs/CMakeLists.txt b/lib/hs/CMakeLists.txt
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+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+
+# Rebuild when any of these files changes
+set(haskell_sources
+    src/Thrift.hs
+    src/Thrift/Arbitraries.hs
+    src/Thrift/Protocol.hs
+    src/Thrift/Protocol/Binary.hs
+    src/Thrift/Protocol/Compact.hs
+    src/Thrift/Protocol/JSON.hs
+    src/Thrift/Server.hs
+    src/Thrift/Transport.hs
+    src/Thrift/Transport/Empty.hs
+    src/Thrift/Transport/Framed.hs
+    src/Thrift/Transport/Handle.hs
+    src/Thrift/Transport/HttpClient.hs
+    src/Thrift/Transport/IOBuffer.hs
+    src/Thrift/Types.hs
+    Thrift.cabal
+)
+
+set(haskell_artifacts thrift_cabal.stamp)
+# Adding *.hi files so that any missing file triggers the build
+foreach(SRC ${haskell_sources})
+    get_filename_component(EX ${SRC} EXT)
+    if(${EX} STREQUAL ".hs")
+        file(RELATIVE_PATH REL ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/src ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/${SRC})
+        get_filename_component(DIR ${REL} DIRECTORY)
+        get_filename_component(BASE ${REL} NAME_WE)
+        list(APPEND haskell_artifacts dist/build/${DIR}/${BASE}.hi)
+    endif()
+endforeach()
+
+add_custom_command(
+    OUTPUT ${haskell_artifacts}
+    COMMAND ${CABAL} update
+    # Build dependencies first without --builddir, otherwise it fails.
+    COMMAND ${CABAL} install --dependencies-only
+    COMMAND ${CABAL} install --builddir=${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/dist
+    COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E touch ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/thrift_cabal.stamp
+    WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
+    DEPENDS ${haskell_sources}
+    COMMENT "Building Haskell library")
+
+add_custom_target(haskell_library ALL
+    DEPENDS ${haskell_artifacts})
+
+if(BUILD_TESTING)
+    add_test(NAME CabalCheck
+            COMMAND ${CABAL} check
+            WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR})
+endif()