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4574 :: How to "install" a newly built Nim on a directory?

• anta40 (orginal) [2019-01-18T16:46:38+01:00] view original

  Compiling Nim package from source is not that hard. On my Windows system, I usually do these:

  $ cd csources
  $ build64.bat
  $ cd ..
  $ bin\nim c koch
  $ koch boot -d:release
  $ koch tools
  $ koch nimble
  Run

  Of course, now my Nim source code directory is polluted with executables, object files, and so on. Is there an automated way to install the only necessary executables and subdirectories on another directory?.

  On Free Pascal, you can do this:

  $ cd <FPC source directory>
  $ make install INSTALL_PREFIX=C:\FPC\3.1.1 NOGDB=1
  $ make clean
  Run

  That means a new Free Pascal compiler package will be built on C:\FPC\3.1.1, and you can clean the source directory afterwards.

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• shashlick (orginal) [2019-01-18T19:53:45+01:00] view original

  I think you only really need the bin and the lib directories for Nim to function. In fact, I was able to make a minimal Nim distro with just nim.exe and lib\system.nim and lib\system.

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• federico3 (orginal) [2019-01-19T13:43:44+01:00] view original

  Run ./install.sh <temporary_directory> from the source directory after building to extract the required files.

  The "compiler" directory is currently included but it should not really installed according to https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/4866#issuecomment-271194805

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• anta40 (orginal) [2019-01-20T15:33:52+01:00] view original

  Thank you. So far, only copying bin and lib directories works fine :)

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• anta40 (orginal) [2019-01-20T15:36:04+01:00] view original

  Hmm where's this install.sh? I couldn't find it in source directory...

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• anta40 (orginal) [2019-02-10T12:52:21+01:00] view original

  OK, found an issue. I copied bin and lib directories to C:Nim.

  Cannot compile this program:

  
  import math
  echo log10(100.0)
  Run

  Nim says:

  
  C:\Users\0590\Codes\Nim>nim c -d:release mathtest.nim
  Hint: system [Processing]
  Hint: widestrs [Processing]
  Hint: io [Processing]
  Hint: mathtest [Processing]
  mathtest.nim(1, 8) Error: cannot open file: math
  Run

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• mashingan (orginal) [2019-02-10T15:43:37+01:00] view original

  import std/math

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• anta40 (orginal) [2019-02-11T03:07:05+01:00] view original

  OK. New error message:

  
  $ nim c -d:release mathtest.nim
  Hint: system [Processing]
  Hint: widestrs [Processing]
  Hint: io [Processing]
  Hint: mathtest [Processing]
  Hint: math [Processing]
  Hint: bitops [Processing]
  C:\nim\lib\pure\bitops.nim(50, 10) Error: cannot open file: macros$ nim c -d:release mathtest.nim
  Hint: system [Processing]
  Hint: widestrs [Processing]
  Hint: io [Processing]
  Hint: mathtest [Processing]
  Hint: math [Processing]
  Hint: bitops [Processing]
  C:\nim\lib\pure\bitops.nim(50, 10) Error: cannot open file: macros
  Run

  I'm afraid there will be another similar "cannot open file" messages...

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• slangmgh (orginal) [2019-02-11T04:44:36+01:00] view original

  Copy the config directory too.

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