On Windows cabal seems to search for unsuffixed binaries only

[Mistuke]

I have noticed that cabal has trouble finding e.g. pkg-config because it's looking for pkg-config instead of pkg-config.exe.

The search for binary functionality on Windows needs to search for both, giving preference to .exe as that's likely to be found.

I do remember this used to work before.

[hvr]

Did you experience this with a version of cabal that had #5753 in it (and note that no released version of cabal currently has this)?

[Mistuke]

yeah, it's one of the latest head builds. AppVeyor should show it by putting it in verbose mode. One sec let me check the latest head.

[hvr]

@Mistuke is there any way you could help debug this? I.e. is it findProgramOnSearchPath that fails to find pkg-config or is it some other codepath being at fault here?

[Mistuke]

Sure, I've started a build to check. (not on my usual machine so don't have one handy).

[Mistuke]

hmm that's interesting, it seems to work on the latest head..

Using pkg-config version 0.29.2 found on system at:
C:\dev\msys64\mingw64\bin\pkg-config.exe

I will have to wait till I'm home to find the other build I was trying. But this seems to not be an issue anymore... Sorry for the noise.