Cannot compile nimtorch tests on Windows 10

[eshitasagar]

C:/Program Files/mingw-w64/x86_64-8.1.0-posix-seh-rt_v6-rev0/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/8.1.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lC:\Users\vsagar200\work\bin\nim-0.19.0_x64\ATen-windows10-cpu\lib\ATen_cpu.lib
C:/Program Files/mingw-w64/x86_64-8.1.0-posix-seh-rt_v6-rev0/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/8.1.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lC:\Users\vsagar200\work\bin\nim-0.19.0_x64\ATen-windows10-cpu\lib\cpuinfo.lib
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Error: execution of an external program failed: 'g++.exe   -o C:\Users\vsagar200\work\soft\nimtorch\tests\test_xor.exe  C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\torch_test_xor.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\stdlib_system.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\torch_torch.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\fragments_cpp.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\stdlib_macros.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\stdlib_tables.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\stdlib_hashes.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\stdlib_math.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\stdlib_strutils.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\stdlib_parseutils.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\stdlib_bitops.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\stdlib_algorithm.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\stdlib_unicode.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\stdlib_ospaths.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\stdlib_winlean.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\stdlib_dynlib.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\torch_torch_cpp.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\stdlib_os.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\stdlib_times.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\stdlib_options.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\stdlib_typetraits.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\stdlib_strformat.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\torch_tensors.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\stdlib_sequtils.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\stdlib_sets.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\torch_tensor_ops.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\torch_autograd_macro.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\torch_autograd_backward.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\torch_nn.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\torch_init.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\torch_python_helpers.cpp.o C:\Users\vsagar200\nimcache\test_xor_d\torch_optim.cpp.o  -LC:\Users\vsagar200\work\bin\nim-0.19.0_x64\ATen-windows10-cpu\lib -LC:\Users\vsagar200\work\bin\nim-0.19.0_x64\ATen-windows10-cpu\lib64 -lC:\Users\vsagar200\work\bin\nim-0.19.0_x64\ATen-windows10-cpu\lib\ATen_cpu.lib -lC:\Users\vsagar200\work\bin\nim-0.19.0_x64\ATen-windows10-cpu\lib\cpuinfo.lib '

Although the ATEN path is correctly set.
Tried on nim 0.18.1 and 0.19.0
the .lib files present at the same location the error is saying it cannot find.

[sinkingsugar]

There are multiple issues here sadly. Because windows is kinda a black sheep in terms of linker.

First of all are you using our distribution of ATen binaries?

If so anyway you need to add --cc:vcc to actually use visual studio compiler.

[sinkingsugar]

We added windows conda builds today!