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

[Simon Peyton Jones]

Yikes that sounds bad!

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.

Help would be fantastic.   Phyx, Ben, etc: do we have a plan?

Simon

From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Sebastian Graf
Sent: 04 April 2017 09:12
To: ghc-devs <ghc-devs at haskell.org>
Subject: Windows 10 Creators Update will break GHC (Was FW: GHC on Windows 10 15019+)

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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