"choosenim update stable" silently exits on Windows

[akavel]

Running choosenim update stable prints only Updating stable and immediately quits 😢

C:\prog\bookwin>choosenim show
  Selected: 1.2.0
   Channel: devel
      Path: C:\Users\Mateusz\.choosenim\toolchains\nim-1.2.0

  Versions:
            #devel
          * 1.2.0

C:\prog\bookwin>choosenim update stable
   Updating stable

C:\prog\bookwin>echo %errorlevel%
-1073741819

C:\prog\bookwin>choosenim show
  Selected: 1.2.0
   Channel: devel
      Path: C:\Users\Mateusz\.choosenim\toolchains\nim-1.2.0

  Versions:
            #devel
          * 1.2.0

C:\prog\bookwin>choosenim --version
choosenim v0.6.0 (2020-03-06 18:45:17) [windows/amd64]

C:\prog\bookwin>choosenim --debug update stable
      Info: No client ID found in 'C:\Users\Mateusz\.choosenim\analytics', not sending analytics.
      Info: No client ID found in 'C:\Users\Mateusz\.choosenim\analytics', not sending analytics.
   Updating stable
       Http Requesting http://nim-lang.org/channels/stable

C:\prog\bookwin>curl -i http://nim-lang.org/channels/stable
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 18:11:28 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: max-age=3600
Expires: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 19:11:28 GMT
Location: https://nim-lang.org/channels/stable
cf-request-id: 041e7895620000f2ac01961200000001
Server: cloudflare
CF-RAY: 5b775d356d9ff2ac-WAW

C:\prog\bookwin>curl -i https://nim-lang.org/channels/stable
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 18:11:21 GMT
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Length: 6
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: __cfduid=d39374cdd2db21b1bc231e0a6b6617d4a1595527881; expires=Sat, 22-Aug-20 18:11:21 GMT; path=/; domain=.nim-lang.org; HttpOnly; SameSite=Lax
Last-Modified: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 18:15:16 GMT
ETag: "5ef63b34-6"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
CF-Cache-Status: DYNAMIC
cf-request-id: 041e787b230000f2acfb1e7200000001
Expect-CT: max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct"
Server: cloudflare
CF-RAY: 5b775d0b6e83f2ac-WAW

1.2.4

C:\prog\bookwin>date /t
23/07/2020

[dom96]

Fun, can you gdb it?

[akavel]

Initial quick run with gdb below, what I could squeeze today morning. I don't know gdb well and how to use it with Nim, but I'll still try to find time to build choosenim repo with --debugger:native, I assume that can give some more info.

If you could give me some suggestions on what commands I should use to find out the position & more info about the crash, would be very helpful and make it possible for me to easier & sooner find a window of time to do that.

C:\dnload\nim-etc\choosenim-0.4.0_windows_i386\choosenim>gdb --args choosenim update stable
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Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"...
Reading symbols from choosenim...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: C:\dnload\nim-etc\choosenim-0.4.0_windows_i386\choosenim\choosenim.exe update stable
[New Thread 11844.0x1798]
warning: `C:\windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll': Shared library architecture i386:x86-64 is not compatible with target architecture i386.
warning: `C:\windows\System32\wow64.dll': Shared library architecture i386:x86-64 is not compatible with target architecture i386.
warning: `C:\windows\System32\wow64win.dll': Shared library architecture i386:x86-64 is not compatible with target architecture i386.
warning: `C:\windows\System32\wow64cpu.dll': Shared library architecture i386:x86-64 is not compatible with target architecture i386.
[New Thread 11844.0x1c40]
[New Thread 11844.0x12a4]
[New Thread 11844.0x688]
   Updating stable
gdb: unknown target exception 0xc0000008 at 0x6a29feba

Thread 1 received signal ?, Unknown signal.
0x0009d978 in ?? ()
(gdb)

For now, quick googling seems to suggest 0xc0000008 means "An invalid handle was specified".

[akavel]

When trying nimble build in choosenim's repo, for v0.6.0, I'm getting a Windows dialog reporting an error in toast.exe, localized text translating more or less to "cannot find object libgcc_s_seh-1.dll" :/

        ... # Including library C:\Users\Mateusz\.choosenim\toolchains\mingw64\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libiconv.a
        ... # Overriding stat dev_t mode_t
        ... # Overriding BY_HANDLE_FILE_INFORMATION
        ... # Importing "C:\Users\Mateusz\nimcache\nimterop\nimarchive\libarchive\LibArchive\include\archive.h, C:\Users\Mateusz\nimcache\nimterop\nimarchive\libarchive\LibArchive\include\archive_entry.h"
        ... stack trace: (most recent call last)
        ... C:\Users\Mateusz\.nimble\pkgs\nimterop-0.6.8\nimterop\cimport.nim(632, 23) cImport
        ... C:\Users\Mateusz\.nimble\pkgs\nimterop-0.6.8\nimterop\cimport.nim(138, 11) getToast
        ... C:\Users\Mateusz\.choosenim\toolchains\nim-1.2.0\lib\system\assertions.nim(29, 26) failedAssertImpl
        ... C:\Users\Mateusz\.choosenim\toolchains\nim-1.2.0\lib\system\assertions.nim(22, 11) raiseAssert
        ... C:\Users\Mateusz\.choosenim\toolchains\nim-1.2.0\lib\system\fatal.nim(49, 5) sysFatal
        ... C:\Users\Mateusz\.nimble\pkgs\nimarchive-0.5.2\nimarchive\archive.nim(61, 10) template/generic instantiation of `cImport` from here
        ... C:\Users\Mateusz\.choosenim\toolchains\nim-1.2.0\lib\system\fatal.nim(49, 5) Error: unhandled exception: C:\Users\Mateusz\.nimble\pkgs\nimterop-0.6.8\nimterop\cimport.nim(138, 16) `false`
        ...  [AssertionError]

[dom96]

@genotrance can you help out here?

[genotrance]

I fixed nimterop by setting -static - that way, the binary won't need the DLLs in path. However, we need to figure this out for choosenim as well.

[dom96]

Give this another try. Choosenim is no longer statically linked on Windows.