Totally dead on Windows?
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This could simply be that I upgraded recently to a newer version of Win10, or that I nuked my GHCup, but currently even monomer applications compiled before the upgrade / GHCup nuke won't run. Are any other Windows users on latest Win10 / Win11 having similar issues?
The current error message looks like this:
the workaround I have right now is to have the Microsoft Visual C++ redistributable package installed on Windows, have the path point to ghcup/msys64/mingw64/bin, and dump the relevant libfreetype-6.dll from this site: https://github.com/ubawurinna/freetype-windows-binaries
It's official, so it's not that smelly.
Seems to be an issue with either msys64, or how I have msys configured with ghcup.
It's apparently a Msys issue, with how libfreetype and harfbuzz work together, and has created issues on Linux as well.
Anyways, standard procedure is to flatpak the executable with necessary dependencies right now.