[GHC] #10777: Overlong linker arguments on Windows leads to broken builds with confusing error messages

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#10777: Overlong linker arguments on Windows leads to broken builds with confusing
error messages
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              Reporter:  snoyberg    |             Owner:
                  Type:  bug         |            Status:  new
              Priority:  normal      |         Milestone:
             Component:  Compiler    |           Version:  7.10.2
              Keywords:              |  Operating System:  Windows
          Architecture:              |   Type of failure:  Compile-time
  Unknown/Multiple                   |  crash
             Test Case:              |        Blocked By:
              Blocking:              |   Related Tickets:
Differential Revisions:              |
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 I've seen three different issues on Github about this: two in the stack
 repo for stack users, and one in the yesod repo for a cabal sandbox user:

 https://github.com/yesodweb/yesod/issues/1020
 https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/466
 https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/795

 The problem comes down to this: Windows has a limit of 32k on the size of
 a command string, which can be tripped by GHC's link phase when using a
 large number of libraries. The ideal situation would be for GHC to have a
 different way of passing large argument lists to the linker; I don't know
 how feasible this is, but I wanted to open up a ticket before I started
 investigating myself in case others have seen this.

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Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10777>
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