multicast does not work on Windows

[mboes]

From @edsko on October 23, 2012 8:30

"bind: failed (Cannot assign requested address (WSAEADDRNOTAVAIL))

Copied from original issue: haskell-distributed/distributed-process#54

[NCrashed]

Stack trace:

C:\dev\dp-issue18>dp-issue18 slave 127.0.0.1 9999 +RTS -xc
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_2_0), stack trace:
  Control.Distributed.Process.Backend.SimpleLocalnet.Internal.Multicast.initMulticast,
  called from Control.Distributed.Process.Backend.SimpleLocalnet.initializeBackend,
  called from Main.main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_2_0), stack trace:
  Control.Distributed.Process.Backend.SimpleLocalnet.Internal.Multicast.initMulticast,
  called from Control.Distributed.Process.Backend.SimpleLocalnet.initializeBackend,
  called from Main.main
*** Exception (reporting due to +RTS -xc): (THUNK_2_0), stack trace:
  Control.Distributed.Process.Backend.SimpleLocalnet.Internal.Multicast.initMulticast,
  called from Control.Distributed.Process.Backend.SimpleLocalnet.initializeBackend,
  called from Main.main
dp-issue18: bind: failed (Cannot assign requested address (WSAEADDRNOTAVAIL))

Stack project which I used to reproduce the bug.

[NCrashed]

Until the fix is not in upstream one can workaround the bug by adding following in project stack.yaml:

- location:
    git: https://github.com/NCrashed/network-multicast
    commit: bb3447abc058378f81d06ffb6bceaa01d441ab47

[NCrashed]

network-multicast-0.0.12 released on hackage with the fix.