Open ynfle opened 3 years ago
Same error on Windows 10, Nim 1.6.0.
Can't replicate, could you confirm on the latest version of nim?
λ choosenim update stable 10:42:11
Updating stable
Downloading Nim 1.6.4 from nim-lang.org
[##################################################] 100.0% 0kb/s
Extracting nim-1.6.4-linux_x64.tar.xz
Extracting nim-1.6.4-linux_x64.tar
Building Nim 1.6.4
Compiler: Already built
Updated to 1.6.4
Switched to Nim 1.6.4
~ via v12.22.1 via v1.61.0-nightly
λ nimble install inim 10:42:23
Downloading https://github.com/inim-repl/INim using git
Verifying dependencies for inim@0.6.1
Info: Dependency on cligen@>= 1.2.0 already satisfied
Verifying dependencies for cligen@1.5.23
Info: Dependency on noise@>= 0.1.4 already satisfied
Verifying dependencies for noise@0.1.4
Installing inim@0.6.1
Building inim/inim using c backend
Prompt: inim@0.6.1 already exists. Overwrite? [y/N]
y
Answer: Success: inim installed successfully.
Only some versions of cligen exhibit the issue, at least one of which is v 1.3.2:
❯ choosenim update stable
Updating stable
Info: Already up to date at version 1.6.4
~
❯ nim --version
Nim Compiler Version 1.6.4 [Windows: amd64]
Compiled at 2022-02-09
Copyright (c) 2006-2021 by Andreas Rumpf
active boot switches: -d:release
❯ nimble install cligen@1.3.2
Downloading https://github.com/c-blake/cligen.git using git
Verifying dependencies for cligen@1.3.2
Installing cligen@1.3.2
Success: cligen installed successfully.
~ took 4s
❯ nimble install inim
Downloading https://github.com/AndreiRegiani/INim using git
Verifying dependencies for inim@0.6.1
Info: Dependency on cligen@>= 1.2.0 already satisfied
Verifying dependencies for cligen@1.3.2
Info: Dependency on noise@>= 0.1.4 already satisfied
Verifying dependencies for noise@0.1.4
Installing inim@0.6.1
Building inim/inim.exe using c backend
C:\Users\thef2102\AppData\Local\Temp\nimble_17068\githubcom_AndreiRegianiINim\src\inim.nim(627, 11) template/generic instantiation of `dispatch` from here
C:\Users\thef2102\.nimble\pkgs\cligen-1.3.2\cligen.nim(777, 14) template/generic instantiation of `dispatchCf` from here
C:\Users\thef2102\.nimble\pkgs\cligen-1.3.2\cligen.nim(754, 31) Error: expression 'dispatchmain(mergeParams([""], commandLineParams()), clUse, "", false, false,
false)' has no type (or is ambiguous)
Prompt: Build failed for 'inim@0.6.1', would you like to try installing 'inim@#head' (latest unstable)? [y/N]
Answer: n
Tip: 8 messages have been suppressed, use --verbose to show them.
Error: Aborting installation due to build failure
cligen@1.3.2 satisfies inim's (0.6.1) constraint of `cligen>=1.2.0, therefore users who already have these "broken" cligen versions on their system would result in a failed build for inim.