Why is stack not using the home directory on Windows?

[Hristo Hristov]

Hello

On Windows stack is downloading stuff to the root drive C:\sr\config.yaml

Why isn't stack using %LOCALAPPDATA% or any of the appropiate Windows paths: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749104(v=ws.10).aspx

Is it possible to tell stack where to put what it downloads?

[Michael Snoyman]

How did you install Stack? Do you possibly have the STACK_ROOT environment variable set?

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[Emanuel Borsboom]

The Windows installer sets STACK_ROOT to c:\sr by default (see https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/2468), but that behaviour can be disabled by unchecking a checkbox.  That's because basically nothing works if your STACK_ROOT is in %LOCALAPPDATA% because you end up hitting the path length limitations (and GHC/libraries still haven't been updated to support long paths in Windows).

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[Hristo Hristov]

Thank you, Michael and Emanuel for pointing, out STACK_ROOT!