Has ghc-9.0 for windows changed to require installation?

[Takenobu Tani]

Hi Moritz, Tamar, Ben,

Thank you for the detailed explaining. I understood the current status.

Ben has opened this:
https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/19339

Always thanks a lot,
Takenobu

On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 4:24 AM Phyx <lonetiger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> No, there's no change at all in the portability.
> This looks like a fallout from switching from Make to Hadrian.
>
> ghcii.sh was created as an artifact of make install. Hadrian seems to lack this step.
>
> Note that this script is nothing magical, it's just a hack around how signal handlers in Native windows and Cygwin processes are handled.
>
> I'm not entirely sure it's still needed with the new I/O manager, however that's not on yet by default..
>
> Anyways support should probably be added to Hadrian.
>
> Kind regards,
> Tamar
>
> Sent from my Mobile
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2021, 14:43 Moritz Angermann <moritz.angermann at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for flagging this. This would be the opposite direction of what I’ve been advocating for. That we get bindists for Linux and macOS that work by simply unpacking them.
>>
>> On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 at 10:05 PM, Takenobu Tani <takenobu.hs at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi devs,
>>>
>>> The ghc-binary for windows needs to `make install` since ghc-9.0 [1].
>>> Is this an intended change?
>>>
>>> Previously, ghc-8.10.4 binary for windows [2] doesn't need to `make install`.
>>> We only expand the tar-file and then we can execute `bin/ghcii.sh`.
>>>
>>> [1]: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.0.1/ghc-9.0.1-x86_64-unknown-mingw32.tar.xz
>>> [2]: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.4/ghc-8.10.4-x86_64-unknown-mingw32.tar.xz
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Takenobu
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