cabal can not find pkg-config even though the right directory has been added to the extra-prog-path

[phadej]

This happens on windows, where pkg-config is in mingw path, but not in global PATH. And there are good reasons to not add mingw-path to global $PATH (hint: it will break everything else on the windows system).

I experienced this myself trying to use pkgconfig on Windows. And apparently others as well https://discourse.haskell.org/t/installing-a-library-with-c-dependencies-on-windows/8557/4

[gbaz]

which version is this on? 3.10? head?

[phadej]

3.10

[jasagredo]

Msys2 at the top, Powershell at the bottom. My pkg-config is not on the global PATH and everything works as expected.

More information is needed on this issue to reproduce it.

[phadej]

@jasagredo it may been fixed in 3.12, as #9519 was fixed.

Did you try with cabal-install-3.10 (and I probably had 3.10.1.0)

[jasagredo]

Yeah, I did some work on the extra-prog-path (breaking other stuff in the way 😁). I'm pretty sure it has been fixed for 3.12? I think there is no support for previous releases.

Do you think we can close the issue?

[jasagredo]

Seems it was released in 3.10.3.0: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/blob/master/release-notes/Cabal-3.10.3.0.md