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5803 :: How do you add switched to the build task?

• sflennik (orginal) [2020-01-12T19:05:41+01:00] view original

  My nim package needs the -d:ssl compile switch. How do I add the switch to the nimble build task used by nimble install? I tried a number of things but none of them worked for me.

  • I tried making a cfg file with the line "-d:ssl" in it.
  • I tried adding a switch("d", "ssl") in a nimble build task.
  • I tried overwriting the build task with an exec statement to run: "nim c -d:ssl ...". It seems the you cannot overwrite the build task.

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• juancarlospaco (orginal) [2020-01-12T19:42:05+01:00] view original

  switch("define", "ssl")

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• sflennik (orginal) [2020-01-12T23:07:58+01:00] view original

  Where do I put the line: switch("define", "ssl")?

  I tried a few more things without luck:

  • I tried adding a "before build" task:

  
  before build:
    switch("define", "ssl")
  Run

  • I tried adding it by itself in the my project nimble file.
  • I tried adding it to different cnf files.
  • I tried adding it to a project .nims file.
  • I've reviewed the nimble readme and the nimscript docs.

  In the nimble docs I found this:

  Make sure that Nimble is configured to run with SSL, adding a -d:ssl flag to the file src/nimble.nim.cfg. After that, you can run src/nimble install and overwrite the existing installation.

  I'm not sure what "run src/nimble install" means but adding -d:ssl to the cfg wasn't enough.

  I'm running on a Mac.

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• mikra (orginal) [2020-01-12T23:49:35+01:00] view original

  just put the switch into a "config.nims". it's nimscript. further reading https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Using-nimscript-for-configuration

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• sflennik (orginal) [2020-01-13T06:54:09+01:00] view original

  Thank you, that worked. I created a config.nims file in my main folder and added one line: switch("define", "ssl")

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