Windows 10 Creators Update will break GHC (Was FW: GHC on Windows 10 15019+)

[Sebastian Graf]

Also note that a minimal patch already exists which will ship in GHC 8.2:
https://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/commitdiff/018ac7f4b2f7345e28d21fb1f99b44dbc79f6e85

It's 'just' a matter of packaging that up in a hotfix.

On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Sebastian Graf <sgraf1337 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> when the Creators Update finally hits Windows 10 stable on April 11th
> (next week), every currently available GHC will be broken by it.
>
> See [1] for the previous discussion, [2] and [3] for the tickets
> discussing this. From what I read on the GHC 8.2 status wiki page, there
> might be an interval of some weeks where it will not be possible to compile
> a Haskell program on any up-to-date Windows 10 installation.
>
> I just wanted to raise awareness and offer myself to do guided grunt work
> (if there is any) to push out a hotfix/inplace patch release for GHC 8.0.2.
>
> Greetings,
> Sebastian
>
> [1] http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/FW-GHC-on-Windows-
> 10-15019-td5853491.html
> [2] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13411
> [3] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13472
>
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