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2633 :: Exact dependencies to build Nim

• andrea (orginal) [2016-11-25T15:53:50+01:00] view original

  Hi, I am trying to build Nim on a dply server, following the instructions on the Nim Github page.

  This has always worked for me, but on these servers, some package is missing. I have installed git and build-essential on a 16.04 Ubuntu; yet when I run ./koch boot -d:release I get

  
  Error: execution of an external program failed: 'gcc -c  -w -O3 -fno-strict-aliasing  -I/root/Nim/lib -o nimcache/release/compiler_nim.o nimcache/release/compiler_nim.c'
  FAILURE
  Run

  Any other packages that may be needed?

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• Araq (orginal) [2016-11-25T17:11:15+01:00] view original

  No, but your server needs to have more than 512MB of RAM or a swap file.

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• andrea (orginal) [2016-11-25T17:26:57+01:00] view original

  Ok, thank you, I will try using the release version

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• Araq (orginal) [2016-11-25T19:15:16+01:00] view original

  Er ... how does that follow from anything I've said?

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• andrea (orginal) [2016-11-27T18:51:36+01:00] view original

  Well, it is just that apparently installing the release version (the one on the download page) requires less RAM and works there :-)

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