Newbie. Downloaded and installed on win10x64 as explained on the download page.
Choose the 64bit-packages of nim and mingw, because I'm working on win64. After
reboot new path is available. Now I tried the easiest, compile helloworld:
nim c helloworld.nim
It results in a longer error message:
Error: execution of an external compiler program 'gcc.exe -c -w
-mno-ms-bitfields -IC:\nim-1.0.4\lib -IE:\Nim\Test -o
C:\Users\cs\nimcache\hello_d\@mhello.nim.c.o
C:\Users\cs\nimcache\hello_d\@mhello.nim.c' failed with exit code: 1
In file included from C:\Users\cs\nimcache\hello_d\@mhello.nim.c:9:0:
C:\nim-1.0.4\lib/nimbase.h:457:13: error: size of array
'Nim_and_C_compiler_disagree_on_target_architecture' is negative
typedef int Nim_and_C_compiler_disagree_on_target_architecture[sizeof(NI)
== sizeof(void*) && NIM_INTBITS == sizeof(NI)*8 ? 1 : -1];
Not really understanding but reading _target_ and "architecture* I look into
the compiler manual and find `--cpu:SYMBOL` . But where are the SYMBOLS listed
and explained? I found an example `--cpu:i386` and simply tried it:
nim c --cpu:i386 helloworld.nim
Bingo, exe is generated without complains. But I feel uncomfortable because I
don't really understand the things happening here.
What did I do wrong? How can I avoid frustration already on the very basic
step? Where do I find systematic documentation about those issues?
