Installation of package persistent-sqlite fails in windows with ld error

[rubenmoor]

Trying either one of the following commands in my Win7 system fails.

$ stack install persistent-sqlite
$ cabal install persistent-sqlite

The error is some rather opaque ld related thing.

Resolving dependencies...
Configuring persistent-sqlite-2.2...
Building persistent-sqlite-2.2...
Failed to install persistent-sqlite-2.2
Build log ( C:\Users\TR@FI_02\AppData\Roaming\cabal\logs\persistent-sqlite-2.2.log ):
Building persistent-sqlite-2.2...
Preprocessing library persistent-sqlite-2.2...
[1 of 2] Compiling Database.Sqlite  ( Database\Sqlite.hs, dist\build\Database\Sqlite.o )
C:\Users\TR@FI_02\AppData\Local\Temp\ghc4324_0\ghc4324_9.ldscript: file not recognized: File format not recognized
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I ran into the issue under different circumstances

• occurs on two different windows machines, both running Win7
• occurs for persistent-sqlite version 2.2 and 2.1.4.2
• occurs for ghc version 7.10.1, 7.8.4

[snoyberg]

Does this problem occur with other packages with embedded C code (yaml is one such example)?

[rubenmoor]

I was not able to reproduce the ld fail on another windows machine and must conclude that there is something odd about my office pcs (they also have MS Visual Studio installed ... and maybe ld is messed up by other programs?).

I could not reproduce the ld fail installing yaml.

[gregwebs]

Perhaps @joeyh is familiar with this

[parsonsmatt]

Closing; if you experience this again or are able to reproduce, feel free to re-open!