nim-gdb on windows
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When installing nim with choosenim on windows and then trying to run nim-gdb, I get this error:
Error: Requested executable is missing. (Path: C:\Users\reyan\.choosenim\toolchains\nim-1.4.2\bin\nim-gdb.exe) Info: If unexpected, please report this error to https://github.com/dom96/choosenim
So the nim-gdb shim from .choosenim tries to call the real one from .choosenim, however it doesn't seem to exist in nim releases for windows.
On the nim repo there is a nim-gdb.bat, but when using it, it will search for nim-gdb.py in .nimble (while the .py is in .choosenim).
I'm not really sure where to go from here.
Edit: for now, I just made a junction like this:
mklink /J C:\Users\reyan\.nimble\tools C:\Users\reyan\.choosenim\toolchains\nim-1.4.2\tools
It seems to work so far as a workaround.
I don't think it's just Windows, but I'm encountering basically the same problem in Linux. nim-gdbcan't work, it's proxying a shell/batch script which expects that .nimble/tools/nim-gdb.py exists.
Choosenim needs to be updated to either symlink (something?) in /tools from the nimble install and/or fix smaller tools like nim-gdb to work with choosenim and other scenarios.
it's proxying a shell/batch script which expects that .nimble/tools/nim-gdb.py exists.
Isn't this a problem with the shell/batch script in that case?
Hi guys, it seems like this is still an issue in 1.6.0. Are there any workarounds?
+1, centos 8.2, choosenim v0.8.2, Nim Compiler Version 1.6.4
Please reopen in the Nim repo. I tested this on Linux and it works, I believe the script included in the Nim tarball needs to be fixed for Windows.