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6177 :: System/io not imported automatically?

• seruum (orginal) [2020-04-08T19:41:10+02:00] view original

  I am and have always used a manual install with the mingw compiler with no issues on my Windows machine. I needed a new utility at work and tried to use rdstdin to get input from the user, but it would not import. This is the error:

  Hint: used config file 'c:\Nim\config\nim.cfg' [Conf]
  c:\Nim\lib\impure\rdstdin.nim(28, 5) Error: undeclared identifier: 'stdout'

  If I copy rdstdin.nim to the current directory and add

  import system
  Run

  at the top it works. This has been duplicated in v1.0.2 and v1.2.0.

  Is this expected? Or should I file a bug report? I couldn't find anything about it.

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• seruum (orginal) [2020-04-08T23:19:04+02:00] view original

  It turns out this is a noob problem. I started the project thinking, "I would like to do this as a nimscript project". I'm guessing that access to stdout, stdin, io, or similar has some restrictions in nimscript.

  So when I started the file was project.nims. When I ran into trouble, I tried it again with a compiled version called project.nim. I forgot that the compiler looks for a matching .nims file when compiling, so the error essentially followed to the new file.

  This is all working as expected without nimscript or the .nims file.

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