Note: GHC 8.6.3 broken on windows for TH

[alanz]

It segfaults.

See https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/16057

[Anrock]

As a consequnce - hie-8.6.3 can't be build on Windows due to fclabels not being buildable: sebastiaanvisser/fclabels#37

[alanz]

Maybe we should adjust the windows build script to skip it by default?

[Anrock]

@alanz you mean replace building with some warning in hie-8.6.3 target? Sounds like a good idea.

[djleonskennedy]

Hello @alanz will it work on downgraded GHC ?

[alanz]

It should work on 8.6.2

[djleonskennedy]

@alanz thank you

[andersyr]

So that others can avoid the same mistake I made, the ReadMe should use hie-8.6.2 as the Nightly installation example and point out that 8.6.3 is currently broken. I.e.,

Install Nightly (and hoogle docs):

stack ./install.hs hie-8.6.2
stack ./install.hs build-doc-8.6.2

(Note, nightly GHC-8.6.3 is currently broken. Please use an alternate version, such as the above, until it's patched.)

[alanz]

The nightly is now 8.6.4, and will be used in master when #1129 lands.

[jneira]

Hi, i am getting to install master using stack (and default stack.yaml) in windows 10 (with some caveats about cabal-helper-wrapper exe location) but in windows 7 (with stack.yaml and stack-8.6.4.yaml) it fails due to kazu-yamamoto/unix-time#51

[Anrock]

install.hs no longer tries to build 8.6.3 on Windows, closed by #1168