Stack always downloads ghc even though it is in path
I want to use Haskell on my computer currently running Windows 10 build 1803, and I am using a broadband connection of 25 Mbps. As of 2018, the Haskell compiler version known as ghc is 8.4.3.
First I download the stack from www.haskellstack.org/ The download is pretty fast since the file is small.
Upon installing stack and updating the stack to its path, I download ghc. The download is extremely slow. After downloading a mere 2.40 or 1.32 MB's it becomes still and after 30 minutes or so, it shows a socket connection error. I copied the error and searched for it in Stack Overflow, but it seemed futile.
As a solution to this, I uninstalled the sole version of stack and installed the Haskell platform which came bundled with ghc and other features along with Cabal and Stack. However upon starting a project using stack, it does not detect the ghc compiler and automatically tries to download the ghc version 8.4.3. Please note that I have added ghc to the path because whenever I type ghc in command line, it gives me the Haskell terminal, and also I have checked the environment variables.
No matter what I do I cannot let stack detect the ghc already coming from Haskell platform and prevent it from automatically downloading its own version of ghc, prior to which it gets stuck at 0.66% forever.
I am from India. Is the server providing the ghc through stack have no support in my country? Or is there any way out! I seemingly cannot install any Haskell packages, for my Haskell project!
You can try adding a mirror to speed it up, take a look at TsingHua stackage mirror.
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