Re: Has ghc-9.0 for windows changed to require installation?

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 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

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On Mon, Feb 8, 2021, 14:43 Moritz Angermann wrote:

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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 wrote:

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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... [2]: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.4/ghc-8.10.4-x86_64-unknown-mingw32.t...

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