I'm having quite a few problems installing nim 1.4.
The first thing I tried is simply using choosenim as recommended on the
announcement page. That resulted in the following error message:
could not load: (libcrypto-1_1-x64|libeay64).dll
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I thought that maybe I could update choosenim using nimble by doing:
nimble install choosenim
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But that failed with the following error:
>nimble install choosenim
Downloading https://github.com/dom96/choosenim using git
Verifying dependencies for choosenim@0.7.2
Installing nimble@#26167cd
Downloading https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble using git
Verifying dependencies for nimble@#26167cd
Installing nimble@#26167cd
Building nimble/nimble.exe using c backend
Success: nimble installed successfully.
Installing nimterop@>= 0.6.12
Downloading https://github.com/genotrance/nimterop using git
Verifying dependencies for nimterop@0.6.13
Installing regex@>= 0.15.0
Downloading https://github.com/nitely/nim-regex using git
Verifying dependencies for regex@0.16.2
Info: Dependency on unicodedb@>= 0.7.2 already satisfied
Verifying dependencies for unicodedb@0.7.2
Info: Dependency on unicodeplus@>= 0.5.0 already satisfied
Verifying dependencies for unicodeplus@0.5.1
Info: Dependency on unicodedb@>= 0.7 already satisfied
Verifying dependencies for unicodedb@0.7.2
Installing regex@0.16.2
Success: regex installed successfully.
Info: Dependency on cligen@>= 1.0.0 already satisfied
Verifying dependencies for cligen@1.0.0
Installing nimterop@0.6.13
Building nimterop/nimterop/loaf.exe using c backend
stack trace: (most recent call last)
cligen.nim(324, 25) dispatchGen
cligen.nim(157, 13) parseHelps
C:\Users\ezquerra\AppData\Local\Temp\nimble_65500\githubcom_genotrancenimterop_0.6.12\nimterop\loaf.nim(33,
16) template/generic instantiation of `dispatchMulti` from here
C:\Users\ezquerra\AppData\Local\Temp\nimble_65500\githubcom_genotrancenimterop_0.6.12\nimterop\loaf.nim(34,
5) template/generic instantiation of `dispatchMultiGen` from here
C:\Users\ezquerra\.nimble\pkgs\cligen-1.0.0\cligen.nim(157, 13) Error: find
has no param matching `help` key "recurse"
Prompt: Build failed for 'nimterop@0.6.13', would you like to try
installing 'nimterop@#head' (latest unstable)? [y/N]
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I then thoguht that maybe I need to try with a newer version of choosenim. I
downloaded it, but that was quite hard to do because both my browser and my
antivirus did not trust it. I finally managed to download it and then ran it
but it did not appear to work either. This might have been my fault because the
antivirus kept throwing error messages whenever I used
choosenim-0.7.2_windows_amd64.exe. In the end I solved the problem by
downloading the nim 1.4 release zip file, extracting it into a nim-1.4.0 folder
the choosenime folder of my profile
(C:Users<my_user_name>.choosenimtoolchainsnim-1.4.0) and then using the
choosenim-0.7.2_windows_amd64.exe file that I had downloaded to select nim
1.4.0:
choosenim-0.7.2_windows_amd64.exe 1.4.0
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I'm pretty sure I made some mistakes through this process. I don't know if
trying to use nim to update choosenim makes sense. I also did not use
`finish.exe` as explained on the "manual installation" section of the nim 1.4.0
announcement post. However I was not quite sure if that was OK given that I had
used choosenim to install previous nim versions. I also don't remember if I had
similar problems installing 1.2.6, or how I fixed them then, since that
happened a long time ago.
All of this to say is that this was far from a smooth experience. Is it just me
who has had these issues?
