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1015 :: C-source distribution only?

• kirbyfan64sos (orginal) [2015-03-11T19:51:09+01:00] view original

  I've been wondering: is it possible to distribute just the generated C sources for a Nim program? Or would that be bad?

  Since Nim generates C89 code, wouldn't that make the resulting code very portable, other than the obvious architecture-dependent sections (a.k.a. Windows-x64, Windows-x86, Linux-PowerPC, etc.)?

  I was just thinking how Nim distributes its own C sources.

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• Varriount (orginal) [2015-03-11T20:00:02+01:00] view original

  If you look at Nim's compiler user guide, you'll notice that there is an option, --genScript, that generates a build script. I believe this is what you want.

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• kirbyfan64sos (orginal) [2015-03-11T21:13:15+01:00] view original

  That would probably work; I could just write a wrapper over it that generates files for all the target platforms.

  Thanks!

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• def (orginal) [2015-03-11T21:19:36+01:00] view original

  Maybe niminst: http://hookrace.net/blog/what-makes-nim-practical/#source-distribution

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• Jehan (orginal) [2015-03-12T00:43:28+01:00] view original

  The compiler generates backend-specific code for some C compilers; for example, it uses case x...y: for GCC and Clang to optimize case statements. You can find the definitions for the various compilers in compiler/extccomp.nim, with the props: TInfoCCProps field defining what a compiler is assumed to be capable of.

  I think using --cc:ucc is the closest you'll get to ensuring the output is standard-compliant (with the caveat that certain things, such as conservative stack scanning, cannot possibly ever be standard-compliant, even though they're pretty much guaranteed to work on all existing C compilers).

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