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Backported compatibility shims for the GHC compilers on Windows 10 Creators Update
ghc-compat
Backported compatibility shims for the GHC compilers on Windows 10 Creative Update
A recent change in Windows 10 build 15019 and newer has pointed out a flaw in our driver code.
A call to the Windows API FreeConsole just after CreateProcess is making Windows
treat the process as an interactive process. In which case it tries to use the
Desktop session but fails resulting in a very cryptic error with the code 0xc0000142.
This has been fixed for GHC 8.2.1 but older GHC compilers are now all broken. Here
you can find the updated and backported GHC wrappers for older GHC releases.
To use, place the gcc.exe for the version you want to patch into mingw/bin/ replacing
the old shims.
To compile the shim yourself use:
$ make all
For the related GHC issue see the GHC issue tracker [1].
Recent GHC/GCC Deployment History
| GHC | Distro x86 | GCC | Binutils | Distro x86_64 | GCC | Binutils |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.10.1 | MinGW-w64 | 9.2.0 | 2.32 | MinGW-w64 | 9.2.0 | 2.32 |
| 8.8.1 | MinGW-w64 | 7.2.0 | 2.29 | MinGW-w64 | 7.2.0 | 2.29 |
| 8.6.5 | MinGW-w64 | 7.2.0 | 2.29 | MinGW-w64 | 7.2.0 | 2.29 |
| 8.6.4 | MinGW-w64 | 7.2.0 | 2.29 | MinGW-w64 | 7.2.0 | 2.29 |
| 8.6.3 | MinGW-w64 | 7.2.0 | 2.29 | MinGW-w64 | 7.2.0 | 2.29 |
| 8.6.2 | MinGW-w64 | 7.2.0 | 2.29 | MinGW-w64 | 7.2.0 | 2.29 |
| 8.6.1 | MinGW-w64 | 7.2.0 | 2.29 | MinGW-w64 | 7.2.0 | 2.29 |
| 8.4.4 | MinGW-w64 | 7.2.0 | 2.29 | MinGW-w64 | 7.2.0 | 2.29 |
| 8.4.3 | MinGW-w64 | 7.2.0 | 2.29 | MinGW-w64 | 7.2.0 | 2.29 |
| 8.4.2 | MinGW-w64 | 7.2.0 | 2.29 | MinGW-w64 | 7.2.0 | 2.29 |
| 8.4.1 | MinGW-w64 | 7.2.0 | 2.29 | MinGW-w64 | 7.2.0 | 2.29 |
| 8.2.1 | MinGW-w64 | 6.2.0 | 2.27 | MinGW-w64 | 6.2.0 | 2.27 |
| 8.0.1 | MinGW-w64 | 5.2.0 | 2.25 | MinGW-w64 | 5.2.0 | 2.25 |
| 7.10.3 | MinGW-w64 | 5.2.0 | 2.25 | MinGW-w64 | 5.2.0 | 2.25 |
| 7.10.2 | MinGW | 4.5.2 | 2.20 | ~~MinGW-w64~~ | 4.6.3 | 2.20 |
| 7.10.1 | MinGW | 4.5.2 | 2.20 | ~~MinGW-w64~~ | 4.6.3 | 2.20 |
| 7.8.3 | MinGW | 4.5.2 | 2.20 | ~~MinGW-w64~~ | 4.6.3 | 2.20 |
| 7.8.2 | MinGW | 4.5.2 | 2.20 | ~~MinGW-w64~~ | 4.6.3 | 2.20 |
| 7.8.1 | MinGW | 4.5.2 | 2.20 | ~~MinGW-w64~~ | 4.6.3 | 2.20 |
| 7.6.3 | MinGW | 4.5.2 | 2.20 | ~~MinGW-w64~~ | 4.6.3 | 2.20 |
| 7.6.2 | MinGW | 4.5.2 | 2.20 | ~~MinGW-w64~~ | 4.6.3 | 2.20 |
| 7.6.1 | MinGW | 4.5.2 | 2.20 | ~~MinGW-w64~~ | 4.6.3 | 2.20 |
| 7.4.2 | MinGW | 4.5.2 | 2.20 | - | - | - |
| 7.4.1 | MinGW | 4.5.2 | 2.20 | - | - | - |
| 7.2.2 | MinGW | 4.5.2 | 2.20 | - | - | - |
| 7.2.1 | MinGW | 4.5.2 | 2.20 | - | - | - |
- Your friendly neighbourhood GHC Windows maintainer.
NOTE: Prior to GHC 7.10.3, the x86_64 bindist do not seem to have been using the wrapper.
The code was built just not included. So they do not require patching.
[1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13411
Mistuke