[Haskell-cafe] augmenting GHC package database

[Vanessa McHale]

Technically I think GHC doesn’t support .hi files built with different GHCs, unfortunately.

I don’t think that cabal-install supports binary packages as far as I know :(

> On Aug 27, 2020, at 3:57 PM, Sylvester Hazel via Haskell-Cafe <haskell-cafe at haskell.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Haskellers,
> Cabal couldn't resolve dependencies for a generated package so I used Stack that used 2 different GHC versions to build library from this package. Stack stored the library as libHSclient-something.a , HSclient-something.o and helper ".hi" files
> 
> The dependent libraries Stack stored and registered at C:\sr..\lib\
> 
> How to add this information to GHC or Cabal database to be able to use this new library? This is on Chocolatey managed Windows platform;-)
> 
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