25 Mar
2021
25 Mar
'21
5:05 p.m.
Clinton Mead
Another gotcha that I didn't think of. The machines I'm targeting often have 32 bit versions of Windows, which it looks like isn't supported after GHC 8.6.
Does this move it into the too hard basket?
Ooph, yeah, this makes matters a bit worse. The reason we ultimately dropped 32-bit Windows support wasn't even a GHC bug; rather, a (rather long-standing at this point) bug in binutils (#17961) which made it impossible to reliably produce binary distributions. My recollection is that this but only affected builds of the object files used by GHCi. If you don't use GHCi then you can likely disable the production of these objects. Cheers, - Ben