Can't build on Windows

[Thomas Miedema]

 I’ve just cloned GHC, on Windows and typed “sh validate”.  But it dies as
> below.  And indeed the directory ghc-tarballs doesn’t exist.  Should it?
> How do I get it?
>

git clone git://git.haskell.org/ghc-tarballs.git

As described on the wiki:
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSources#CloningHEAD

There is an unfinished patch to make that step unnecessary:
https://phabricator.haskell.org/D339
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