#10777: Overlong linker arguments on Windows leads to broken builds with confusing error messages -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: snoyberg | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.10.2 Keywords: | Operating System: Windows Architecture: | Type of failure: Compile-time Unknown/Multiple | crash Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Revisions: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- I've seen three different issues on Github about this: two in the stack repo for stack users, and one in the yesod repo for a cabal sandbox user: https://github.com/yesodweb/yesod/issues/1020 https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/466 https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/795 The problem comes down to this: Windows has a limit of 32k on the size of a command string, which can be tripped by GHC's link phase when using a large number of libraries. The ideal situation would be for GHC to have a different way of passing large argument lists to the linker; I don't know how feasible this is, but I wanted to open up a ticket before I started investigating myself in case others have seen this. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10777 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler