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@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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