Possible regression of cross-compiling TH with mingwW64

[thomasjm]

Describe the bug

I've been trying to cross-compile a project from Linux to Windows, and noticed that several dependencies which depend on TH fail to compile in the same manner described in #1913.

There are a few examples, such as exceptions in TH code that reads from a file with file-embed, as in #1913. But for this issue I'll focus on just building aeson-typescript, where the TH doesn't even do external IO.

This is on x86_64-linux. I've tried with GHC 9.6.6 and GHC 9.8.4, which the current repro uses, and the latest Haskell.nix.

I think #2034 was meant to address these issues, but I think there might have been some regression. I'd note that the comment in overlays/wine.nix became out of date with #2034, which stopped pinning Wine. That comment mentioned Wine 5.4, but Wine on nixpkgs-unstable is up to version 10.0 now.

Steps To Reproduce

git clone [email protected]:codedownio/aeson-typescript.git
cd aeson-typescript
nix build .#windows

The build fails with a message like this (which sort of suggests a locale issue?):

       > wine: failed to open L"C:\\windows\\syswow64\\rundll32.exe": c0000135
       > wine: configuration in L"/build" has been updated.
       > Listening on port 6249
       > iserv-proxy: getBin: Unknown encoding for constructor
       > iserv-proxy-interpreter.exe:<socket:180>:hPutBuf:invalidargument(Invalid a
       > rgument)
       >
       > src/Data/Aeson/TypeScript/Instances.hs:190:25: error: [GHC-87897]
       >     • Exception when trying to run compile-time code:
       >         {handle: <file descriptor: 25>}: GHCi.Message.remoteCall: end of file
       >       Code: Language.Haskell.TH.Quote.quoteExp
       >               i "{[k: string]: #{getTypeScriptType (Proxy :: Proxy a)}}"
       >     • In the quasi-quotation:
       >         [i|{[k: string]: #{getTypeScriptType (Proxy :: Proxy a)}}|]
       >     |
       > 190 |   getTypeScriptType _ = [i|{[k: string]: #{getTypeScriptType (Proxy :: Proxy a)}}|]
       >     |                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
       > [ 8 of 12] Compiling Data.Aeson.TypeScript.Formatting ( src/Data/Aeson/TypeScript/Formatting.hs, dist/build/Data/Aeson/TypeScript/Formatting.o )

Expected behavior

The pkgsCross.mingwW64 version of the aeson-typescript library should build successfully.

CC @amesgen and @angerman, I'd be very grateful for any help in figuring this out!

[angerman]

@thomasjm I hope to have some time to investigate this next week 😅

[thomasjm]

Thank you!