Build fails on Windows - 'C compiler cannot create executables'

[rossng]

Hi. I'm trying to build Tidal, which depends on network-2.6.3.6. stack build gives me this error:

D:\Development\Haskell\Tidal>stack build
network-2.6.3.6: configure
Progress 1/3

--  While building package network-2.6.3.6 using:
      C:\Users\Ross Gardiner\AppData\Local\Temp\stack13136\network-2.6.3.6\.stack-work\dist\7d103d30\setup\setup --builddir=.stack-work\dist\7d103d30 configure "--with-ghc=C:\\Users\\Ross Gardiner\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\stack\\x86_64-windows\\ghc-8.4.4\\bin\\ghc.EXE" "--with-ghc-pkg=C:\\Users\\Ross Gardiner\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\stack\\x86_64-windows\\ghc-8.4.4\\bin\\ghc-pkg.EXE" --user --package-db=clear --package-db=global --package-db=D:\sr\snapshots\889ff22c\pkgdb --libdir=D:\sr\snapshots\889ff22c\lib --bindir=D:\sr\snapshots\889ff22c\bin --datadir=D:\sr\snapshots\889ff22c\share --libexecdir=D:\sr\snapshots\889ff22c\libexec --sysconfdir=D:\sr\snapshots\889ff22c\etc --docdir=D:\sr\snapshots\889ff22c\doc\network-2.6.3.6 --htmldir=D:\sr\snapshots\889ff22c\doc\network-2.6.3.6 --haddockdir=D:\sr\snapshots\889ff22c\doc\network-2.6.3.6 --dependency=base=base-4.11.1.0 --dependency=bytestring=bytestring-0.10.8.2 "--extra-include-dirs=C:\\Users\\Ross Gardiner\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\stack\\x86_64-windows\\msys2-20180531\\mingw64\\include" "--extra-lib-dirs=C:\\Users\\Ross Gardiner\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\stack\\x86_64-windows\\msys2-20180531\\mingw64\\bin" "--extra-lib-dirs=C:\\Users\\Ross Gardiner\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\stack\\x86_64-windows\\msys2-20180531\\mingw64\\lib"
    Process exited with code: ExitFailure 77
    Logs have been written to: D:\Development\Haskell\Tidal\.stack-work\logs\network-2.6.3.6.log

    [1 of 2] Compiling Main             ( C:\Users\Ross Gardiner\AppData\Local\Temp\stack13136\network-2.6.3.6\Setup.hs, C:\Users\Ross Gardiner\AppData\Local\Temp\stack13136\network-2.6.3.6\.stack-work\dist\7d103d30\setup\Main.o )
    [2 of 2] Compiling StackSetupShim   ( D:\sr\setup-exe-src\setup-shim-Z6RU0evB.hs, C:\Users\Ross Gardiner\AppData\Local\Temp\stack13136\network-2.6.3.6\.stack-work\dist\7d103d30\setup\StackSetupShim.o )
    Linking C:\Users\Ross Gardiner\AppData\Local\Temp\stack13136\network-2.6.3.6\.stack-work\dist\7d103d30\setup\setup.exe ...
    Configuring network-2.6.3.6...
    configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-compiler
    configure: loading site script /usr/local/etc/config.site
    checking build system type... x86_64-w64-mingw32
    checking host system type... x86_64-w64-mingw32
    checking for gcc... C:\Users\Ross Gardiner\AppData\Local\Programs\stack\X86_64~1\GHC-84~1.4\lib/../mingw/bin\gcc.exe
    checking whether the C compiler works... no
    configure: error: in `/c/Users/Ross Gardiner/AppData/Local/Temp/stack13136/network-2.6.3.6/.stack-work/dist/7d103d30/build':
    configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
    See `config.log' for more details

I've seen a few threads around the place that have similar issues, but nothing I've tried has worked, including:

• Removing my native installation of msys2 from PATH
• Using --skip-msys
• Using --no-system-ghc
• Re-enabling 8.3 filenames (I had them disabled to improve NTFS performance)
• stack building various versions of network directly from git, including 2.8.0.0 and the latest master

The gcc.exe mentioned in the error message does exist on disk and gcc -v gives valid output. I have no other GHC or GCC on my path.

Let me know if I can help by providing any further details.

Platform details:

• Installed stack standalone - not through Haskell Platform
• Windows 10 1809, 64-bit

[rossng]

I just tried this again after removing Stack and installing the full Haskell Platform but had no more luck.

I also wondered if it was something to do with autoreconf - obviously this isn't available on Windows but it can be installed inside Stack's msys2. I ran stack exec -- pacman -S base-devel and now (somewhat baffingly) get this:

> stack exec -- which autoreconf
/usr/bin/autoreconf

> stack exec -- autoreconf
Executable named autoreconf not found on path: [etc.]

[mpilgrem]

This may be related: commercialhaskell/stack#4726. I found that setting up stack so that there was no space in a particular path fixed things for me.

[kazu-yamamoto]

@rossng Could you check if your path include space characters?

[mpilgrem]

@rossng, in respect of your stack exec -- autoreconf problem, autoreconf is a shell script file, not an executable. Try stack exec sh -- autoreconf -i. autoreconf depends on perl, which also needs to be installed inside stack's MSYS2 (stack exec pacman -- -S perl).

EDIT: perl 5.28.1-2 is broken (msys2/MSYS2-packages#1611). To downgrade to a version that works, I used:

stack exec pacman -- -U http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/perl-5.28.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

[Mistuke]

This doesn't seem like a network issue. re-open if it is, but nothing here points to it being so..