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1777 :: Nimscript as build tool on Windows

• Tayku (orginal) [2015-11-08T02:36:34+01:00] view original

  Hello,

  I am using Nim on Windows, and I just updated to 0.12 to see what Nimscript can do. Unfortunately it does not work as expected or as seen in the documentation / examples.

  I was using the example script to get a simple Nim build task:

  mode = ScriptMode.Verbose
  
  task default, "default target":
    # 'nim default foo.nim' is an alias for 'nim c foo.nim'
    setCommand "c"
  Run

  But when executing nim default helloworld.nim I only get

  default              default target
  Error: invalid command: 'build'

  (Also I want to say, it is quite difficult that the documentation does not tell you about how to use nimscript as build script. This syntax is hidden in the forum …)

  What is wrong with the example or my execution of it?

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• Varriount (orginal) [2015-11-08T07:47:43+01:00] view original

  Your file needs to have the '.nims' extension. Then you can invoke it as nim default test.nims. What's a tad confusing is that if 'test.nims' doesn't exist, you still get an invalid command error - This should probably be changed (maybe file an issue?).

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• Araq (orginal) [2015-11-08T10:45:15+01:00] view original

  No, actually you need to use nim default test or nim default test.nim because nims is just the configuration file.

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