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3932 :: `system module needs 'process.exit'` when targeting JS

• rolha (orginal) [2018-06-16T16:08:42+02:00] view original

  I'm compiling a trivial Nim program using the JS backend and when using

  "nim c -d:nodejs foo.nim" I get the following error:

  Error: system module needs 'process.exit'.

  If using "nim js -d:nodejs -d:release -o:foo.js foo.nim", the compilation succeeds, but when running the resulting JS in a browser, I get the following error on the dev console:

  foo.js:278 Uncaught ReferenceError: process is not defined at foo.js:278

  (line 278 in foo.js is "process.exitCode = 0;") Interestingly, if delete line 278, the script runs fine on the browser.

  Any advice on what's the problem and how to avoid it? Thanks.

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• DeletedUser (orginal) [2018-06-16T19:28:40+02:00] view original

  What's the point of doing -d:nodejs if the output is for the browser? The nodejs symbol should only be defined when the output script is supposed to run on the node.js runtime

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• Tiberium (orginal) [2018-06-16T22:11:44+02:00] view original

  You should use nim js yourfile.nim and not nim c -d:nodejs yourfile.nim

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• rolha (orginal) [2018-06-16T23:01:07+02:00] view original

  Thank you, that makes perfect sense.

  It's working fine now.

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