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10471 :: Get C code output

• c4UlMu (orginal) [2023-09-09T00:04:47+02:00] view original

  I want to write code for Flipper Zero. They write code in C Is it possible to write all the code in nim and then get C output and compile it with their tools?

  Or maybe you can show me articles or tutorial how to integrate nim with external C tools ?

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• SpotlightKid (orginal) [2023-09-09T00:52:23+02:00] view original

  https://nim-lang.org/docs/backends.html#interfacing

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• PMunch (orginal) [2023-09-09T00:58:09+02:00] view original

  You can definitely do both. Maybe having a look at how Ratel builds for various microcontrollers can give you an idea? https://github.com/pmunch/ratel

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• c4UlMu (orginal) [2023-09-09T11:03:13+02:00] view original

  Thanks. I guess it is what I need

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• elcritch (orginal) [2023-09-13T10:10:36+02:00] view original

  Ratel's a good place to look. Really it's pretty simple, largely just using nim c --noCompile --nimcache:someNimcacheFolder/. Then you can compile all the C code.

  Though usually you need to find and copy nimbase.h into the folder as well. That's a bit annoying, but here's my (hacky) solution to get the path in a Nimble task: https://github.com/elcritch/nesper/blob/6ee73cdec794b8163cb90970a16290848cdc8519/src/nesper/build_utils/tasks.nim#L175

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