diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e42b8b3..e06b8ab 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ all:
 DOCKER_EXPORT = CAMKES_VM_APP
 export DOCKER_EXPORT
 
+build_cache:
+	@scripts/build_cache.sh
+
 build_camkes: .config
 	@scripts/build_camkes.sh
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index aac432f..d1dc2d1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -71,6 +71,21 @@ host% <b>echo 'export YOCTO_SOURCE_MIRROR_DIR='${YOCTO_SOURCE_MIRROR_DIR} >> ~/.
 host% <b>mkdir ${YOCTO_SOURCE_MIRROR_DIR}</b>
 </pre>
 
+## Configure build cache directory
+
+Compiling Haskell packages takes quite a long time, several minutes on a power machine.
+The ```make``` equivalent, ```stack```, is able to cache the build results and because the
+Haskell sources stay the same for most of the time (versions used are configured in
+```capdl.git```), it is advisable to export a host directory to container to store
+the cached build results across containers. Note that for CI purposes you need to judge
+yourself when to enable the cache.
+
+<pre>
+host% <b>export BUILD_CACHE_DIR=~/.tii_sel4_build</b>
+host% <b>echo 'export BUILD_CACHE_DIR='${BUILD_CACHE_DIR} >> ~/.bashrc</b>
+host% <b>mkdir ${BUILD_CACHE_DIR}</b>
+</pre>
+
 ## Check out sources
 <pre>
 # Choose a working directory, this will be visible in the container at /workspace
@@ -87,6 +102,11 @@ host% <b>repo sync</b>
 host% <b>make docker</b>
 </pre>
 
+## Prepopulate build cache
+<pre>
+host% <b>make build_cache</b>
+</pre>
+
 ## Use it!
 
 <pre>
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile b/docker/Dockerfile
index b1c4144..61856f6 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -101,18 +101,6 @@ RUN pip3 install \
     pyfdt \
     pyyaml
 
-# Let's build all the capdl's dependencies. Downloading, compiling and
-# installing the correct GHC version and all of the dependencies takes
-# lots of time and we don't want to redo that everytime we restart the
-# container.
-
-RUN \
-    git clone https://github.com/seL4/capdl.git /home/build/capdl && \
-    cd /home/build/capdl/capDL-tool && \
-    stack build --only-dependencies && \
-    cd /home/build && \
-    rm -rf /home/build/capdl
-
 ENV WORKSPACE=/workspace
 
 WORKDIR /workspace
diff --git a/docker/enter_container.sh b/docker/enter_container.sh
index 0c632d9..049d28c 100755
--- a/docker/enter_container.sh
+++ b/docker/enter_container.sh
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ exec ${CONTAINER_ENGINE} run --rm ${INTERACTIVE} \
   -v "${DIR}:/workspace:z" \
   ${YOCTO_SOURCE_MIRROR_DIR:+--env YOCTO_SOURCE_MIRROR_DIR=/workspace/downloads} \
   ${YOCTO_SOURCE_MIRROR_DIR:+-v "${YOCTO_SOURCE_MIRROR_DIR}":/workspace/downloads:z} \
+  ${BUILD_CACHE_DIR:+-v "${BUILD_CACHE_DIR}"/stack:/home/build/.stack:z} \
   -v "${HOME}/.ssh:/home/build/.ssh:z" \
   -v "${HOME}/.gitconfig:/home/build/.gitconfig:z" \
   ${CONTAINER_ENGINE_OPTS} \
diff --git a/scripts/build_cache.sh b/scripts/build_cache.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..8e896db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/build_cache.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+. ${0%/*}/functions.sh
+
+TMPDIR=`mktemp -d ${HOME}/capdl.XXXXXX`
+
+git clone https://github.com/seL4/capdl.git ${TMPDIR}/capdl
+cd ${TMPDIR}/capdl/capDL-tool
+stack build --only-dependencies
+cd ${HOME}
+rm -rf ${TMPDIR}