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8575 :: Query nim include paths

• gyohng (orginal) [2021-11-01T13:47:50+01:00] view original

  Hello,

  I'm about to include some Nim code into my CMake with C++. I managed to get most of it going; one thing I couldn't find though is a way to resolve Nim include path. The nim compiler generates an interface header file for me to use; however, it, in turn, depends on including a Nim library header, the path to which is system-dependent.

  Is there a way to print the include path, the equivalent of what pkg-config does?

  % pkg-config python-3.9 --cflags-only-I

  -I/opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/include/python3.9

  I can see that nim dump shows some data, but it's not easily formatted for reusing it

  Thanks, George.

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• shirleyquirk (orginal) [2021-11-01T14:38:33+01:00] view original

  You can get the path to the Nim stdlib with:

  
  Nim --hints:off --eval:"import std/compilesettings; echo querySetting(libPath)"
  Run

  but maybe there's a better way

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• kaushalmodi (orginal) [2021-11-01T14:58:54+01:00] view original

  If you have jq installed (I think it's an awesome tool in general), you can do this:

  
  nim dump --dump.format:json . | jq -r .libpath
  Run

  Reference

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• gyohng (orginal) [2021-11-05T13:30:12+01:00] view original

  Thanks, that's really helpful. I'll use the suggestions.

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