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8136 :: How Best To Move 3rd Party Executable into .nimble/bin Upon Package Installation

• Niminem (orginal) [2021-06-20T04:32:39+02:00] view original

  Hey guys,

  I have a 3rd party binary that needs to be used with my library.

  My directory looks like so:

  /bin

  theBinary

  /src

  myLibrary

  myLibrary.nimble

  When installing the package via Nimble, I'd like to have this binary reside within the .nimble/bin (or somewhere in the PATH really) so it can be referred to by the binary that gets created during the Nimble installation. This 3rd party binary is a helper that will embed an icon within a Window's executable

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• ynfle (orginal) [2021-06-20T10:20:29+02:00] view original

  I think is what you are looking for https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble#binary-packages

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• Stefan_Salewski (orginal) [2021-06-20T10:32:43+02:00] view original

  I think is what you are looking for

  Also note that nimble supports install hooks/task or whatever they are called, as I used for the gintro install:

  https://github.com/StefanSalewski/gintro/blob/master/gintro.nimble

  I am using the "before install:" task.

  Unfortunately I am not sure if the nimph package manager supports that as well.

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• Niminem (orginal) [2021-06-20T18:52:32+02:00] view original

  This is exactly what I was looking for. I'll simply use the before install task to copy the binary into the ~/.nimble/nim/bin directory

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