#7056: GHCi loadArchive "libiconv.a":failed Unknown PEi386 section name `.drectve' ----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Reporter: songpp | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: 7.6.2 Component: GHCi | Version: 7.4.1 Resolution: | Keywords: loadArchive Unknown PEi386 Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86 Type of failure: GHCi | Difficulty: Unknown crash | Blocked By: 3658 Test Case: | Related Tickets: #2487, #7103 Blocking: | ----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Comment (by thoughtpolice): I looked into this. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en- us/library/ms809762.aspx

The `.drective` section only appears in OBJ files. It contains text representations of commands for the linker. For example, in any OBJ I compile with the Microsoft compiler, the following strings appear in the `.drectve` section...

This is with Microsoft compilers. Presumably, MinGW or something is doing this now too? Some searching suggests `ld` generally doesn't understand the directives placed in `.drectve`, although maybe something changed or it puts something else there. It's probably just best to ignore the section (a simple fix); I'll try to get GCC 4.8 on my Windows build machine and reproduce it. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7056#comment:9 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler