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1459 :: Compilation question

• tolson68 (orginal) [2015-07-19T15:59:24+02:00] view original

  I'm a noob to nim, but like what I see so far. I do have a question on compilation though.

  If my directory structure is:

  
  project
    |--bin
    |--doc
    |--src
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  and I execute "nim c" from 'project' like:

  
    nim c -o:./bin/hello -r ./src/hello.nim
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  I receive the following error:

  
      /usr/bin/ld: cannot open output file /home/me/Projects/nim/hello/src/./bin/hello: No such file or directory
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  likewise if I use home directory shorthand (~) I also have problems, when executing this:

  
    nim c -o:~/Projects/nim/hello/bin/hello -r ./src/hello.nim
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  I receive this error:

  
      sh: 1: ./~/Projects/nim/hello/bin/hello: not found
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  on the other hand:

  
    nim c -o:/home/me/Projects/nim/hello/bin/hello -r ~/Projects/nim/hello/src/hello.nim
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  works, on yet another hand: (I know too many hands)

  
    nim c -o:/home/me/Projects/nim/hello/bin/hello -r ./src/hello.nim
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  works fine, so does:

  
    nim c -o:/home/me/Projects/nim/hello/bin/hello - r /home/me/Projects/nim/hello/src/hello.nim
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  It appears that the output path does not get fully expanded/resolved prior to compilation. Is this the intended behavior? I would just like to know moving forward, what the expected behavior should be.

  Thanks for having me as a new Nim(rod),

  Tom

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• dom96 (orginal) [2015-07-20T04:29:32+02:00] view original

  I think there have been things fixed recently with path handling in the compiler. Try the devel branch from github if you're using 0.11.2.

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