Could not find GHC in WSL-Remote

[amyjbrown]

I'm using the Haskell Language Server and on Windows WSL (Windows 10, Ubuntu), and I have GHC installed in /opt/ghc/bin/ghc, (following from this guide https://www.haskell.org/downloads/linux/) which is put on the path during code startup. However, after some fiddling with my .bash_profile and .bashrc, the Haskell extension was not able to find GHC, even if the terminal I pull up does so.

Is there a way of specifying the path of GHC proper within the extension?

[jneira]

Is there a way of specifying the path of GHC proper within the extension?

Actually there is no way and i think it should exist, given the amount of related issues (cc @bubba). It needs changes in the server though.
If you start vscode from the command line, does it work?

[amyjbrown]

Hey Jneira,
Just installed GHC & Cabal via ghcup, and despite it following the same strategy as my previous install it seems to just work!

I guess this is a solution, but it still feels kind of magic - I don't know if choosing a different default install location would have made this not work.

[lukel97]

@amyjbrown How are you launching vscode? If you launch it from the code CLI tool then it will inherit whatever PATH your shell had, but if you invoke from the taskbar/your desktop environment, you'll need to make sure that their PATH is set up properly too

[jneira]

The issue might be related with
haskell/haskell-language-server#236

@amyjbrown as it is not being reproduced i am gonna close it, feel free to reopen (or better, open a new one in the haskell-language-server issue tracker) if you hit it again