Build of container-test fails with cabal about containers HOT 8 CLOSED

Yes, that was it ! I have managed to compile and run the tests, thanks a lot for your help !

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You're welcome. Do you think you could write something up about what you did to add to CONTRIBUTING.md? I don't have a Windows development environment, so I can't experiment with that sort of thing.

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My semi-educated guess is that you're running into #630, which is a mess I don't really know how to help with. Could you try copying the src and include trees from the containers subdirectory into the containers-tests one after each round of modifications and before running tests/benchmarks? That might at least get you unstuck, though it will be annoying.

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Alternatively (better?) you could copy that once, do whatever you need to do within the containers-tests directory, then copy it back before you commit. We use symbolic links to replicate the source of containers in containers-tests. That lets us uncomment the containers package from cabal.project to avoid recompiling all the test and benchmark framework stuff while iterating on changes. There may be a better way, but I'm not good at this sort of devops stuff and that's what @phadej was able to figure out.

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I closed the issue because this would be a duplicate of #630 (comment)

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Sure, I'll do that tomorrow, I need some sleep first :)

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That'd be great. Good night!

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I added a pull request with some instructions. Actually it is possible on windows to use symlinks, so there's no need for the workaround you suggested before except for Windows 8 or earlier. This should also close #630

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