Testsuite driver fails on Windows

I encountered the following failure in the testsuite driver while bringing up the new Windows build bot,

PYTHON="python2" "python2" ../../driver/runtests.py  -e ghc_compiler_always_flags="'-dcore-lint -dcmm-lint -no-user-package-db -rtsopts  -fno-warn-missed-specialisations -fshow-warning-groups -dno-debug-output'" -e config.compiler_debugged=True -e ghc_with_native_codegen=1 -e config.have_vanilla=True -e config.have_dynamic=False -e config.have_profiling=False -e ghc_with_threaded_rts=1 -e ghc_with_dynamic_rts=0 -e config.have_interp=False -e config.unregisterised=False -e config.ghc_dynamic_by_default=False -e config.ghc_dynamic=False -e ghc_with_smp=1 -e ghc_with_llvm=0 -e windows=True -e darwin=False -e config.in_tree_compiler=True --threads=3 -e config.cleanup=True -e config.local=False --rootdir=. --configfile=../../config/ghc -e 'config.confdir="../../config"' -e 'config.platform="x86_64-unknown-mingw32"' -e 'config.os="mingw32"' -e 'config.arch="x86_64"' -e 'config.wordsize="64"' -e 'config.timeout=int() or config.timeout' -e 'config.exeext=".exe"' -e 'config.top="/home/drydock/ghc/testsuite"' --config 'compiler="/home/drydock/ghc/inplace/bin/ghc-stage1.exe"' --config 'ghc_pkg="/home/drydock/ghc/inplace/bin/ghc-pkg.exe"' --config 'haddock="/home/drydock/ghc/inplace/bin/haddock.exe"' --config 'hp2ps="/home/drydock/ghc/inplace/bin/hp2ps.exe"' --config 'hpc="/home/drydock/ghc/inplace/bin/hpc.exe"' --config 'gs="gs"' --config 'timeout_prog="../../timeout/install-inplace/bin/timeout.exe"' -e "config.stage=1" --summary-file "../../../testsuite_summary_stage1.txt" --no-print-summary 1  \
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Warning: Ignoring request to use threads as running on Windows
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "../../driver/runtests.py", line 174, in <module>
    if mydll.kernel32.SetConsoleCP(65001) == 0:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 435, in __getattr__
    dll = self._dlltype(name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 365, in __init__
    self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
OSError: No such file or directory

From the repl it indeed seems that ctypes.cdll.kernel32 is broken,

$ python
>>> import ctypes
>>> ctypes.cdll.kernel32
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/ctypes/__init__.py", line 421, in __getattr__
    dll = self._dlltype(name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/ctypes/__init__.py", line 351, in __init__
    self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
OSError: No such file or directory

Tamar, do you have any idea what is going on here?

Trac metadata

Trac field	Value
Version	8.0.1
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Test Suite
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CC	Phyx
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