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524 :: compiling simplest tutorial example on Xubuntu

[2014-08-12T23:02:24+02:00]

freedaun (orginal) [2014-08-12T23:02:24+02:00] view original
I have this source (see http://nimrod-lang.org/tut1.html#the-first-program_toc):
```
echo("What's your name? ")

var name: string = readLine(stdin)

echo "Hi, ", name, "!"
```
I compile with:
```
nimrod c .\hello.nim
```
On Xubuntu (latest). The result is:
```
Error: invalid module name: '.hello'
```
What's up?? On Windows everything works as advertised.

def (orginal) [2014-08-12T23:37:00+02:00] view original
On Linux \ is the escaping character. Try
```
nimrod c hello.nim
```
or
```
nimrod c ./hello.nim
```

filwit (orginal) [2014-08-13T06:33:57+02:00] view original

also the .nim is completely optional. this works:

$ nimrod c hello

freedaun (orginal) [2014-08-13T14:13:09+02:00] view original

Oh well. Shame on me ;)

Hard to imagine I 50% of my work is on Linux.. still have a blind spot.