[Bug]: Failure to build lovebrew tool on macOS.

[tomlister]

Software Version

0.5.3 (Latest)

What Happened?

• Using latest source
• Installed nim
• Installed deps with nimble
• Ran nimble build

tom.lister@tomlister lovebrew-main % nimble build              
  Verifying dependencies for lovebrew@0.5.3
      Info: Dependency on zippy@any version already satisfied
  Verifying dependencies for zippy@0.7.3
      Info: Dependency on parsetoml@any version already satisfied
  Verifying dependencies for parsetoml@0.6.0
      Info: Dependency on cligen@any version already satisfied
  Verifying dependencies for cligen@1.5.19
      Info: Dependency on https://github.com/yglukhov/iface@any version already satisfied
  Verifying dependencies for iface@0.1.0
   Building lovebrew/lovebrew using c backend
/Users/tom.lister/Downloads/lovebrew-main/src/types/console.nim(18, 8) Error: undeclared identifier: 'Console'
candidates (edit distance, scope distance); see '--spellSuggest': 
 (1, 2): 'console' [module declared in /Users/tom.lister/Downloads/lovebrew-main/src/types/console.nim(1, 2)]
       Tip: 9 messages have been suppressed, use --verbose to show them.
     Error: Build failed for package: lovebrew
        ... Execution failed with exit code 256
        ... Command: /Users/tom.lister/.nimble/bin/nim c --colors:on --noNimblePath -d:NimblePkgVersion=0.5.3 --path:/Users/tom.lister/.nimble/pkgs/zippy-0.7.3 --path:/Users/tom.lister/.nimble/pkgs/parsetoml-0.6.0 --path:/Users/tom.lister/.nimble/pkgs/cligen-1.5.19 --path:/Users/tom.lister/.nimble/pkgs/iface-0.1.0 --hints:off -o:/Users/tom.lister/Downloads/lovebrew-main/dist/lovebrew /Users/tom.lister/Downloads/lovebrew-main/src/lovebrew.nim

What was Expected?

For it to build.

Operating System

macOS

Operating System Version

macOS Big Sur

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[TurtleP]

I think I know why this happens. Try removing -passL:"static" from nim.cfg and try building it again from the root directory. Not sure if you were in the right directory when building before. If this doesn't fix it I'll reach out to the nim community and see what's going on.

[tomlister]

I think I know why this happens. Try removing -passL:"static" from nim.cfg and try building it again from the root directory. Not sure if you were in the right directory when building before. If this doesn't fix it I'll reach out to the nim community and see what's going on.

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. It still doesn't work. Here are some errors from the language server.

[TurtleP]

Odd.. I haven't updated nim in some time, so I'm not sure what the latest version is. Perhaps @ajusa knows something about this?

[ajusa]

Well it looks like it isn't picking up iface for some reason... I'll try and take a look sometime soon (tonight or tomorrow). There might have been a change from Nim 1.4 to 1.6 causing this somehow? If it's mac only I won't be much help.

[tomlister]

For context nimble: nimble v0.13.1 compiled at 2021-11-29 03:26:59 nim: Nim Compiler Version 1.6.0 [MacOSX: amd64]

[ajusa]

I can reproduce Linux, so that's something. Must be an issue with iface on 1.6, I'll open an issue in iface if the Nim Discord can't debug it.

For now, if you can choosenim 1.4.8 and then run nimble install that should let you at least build it using the older version of Nim.

EDIT: Here's the iface issue: https://github.com/yglukhov/iface/issues/13 It's not a super active project for yglukhov so we may also want to consider moving back to dynamic dispatch/method. If that's the case, I'll make a PR @TurtleP, since I was the one to move to iface in the first place :sweat_smile:

[tomlister]

I see. iface is like interface in golang I switched to 1.4.8, seems to work

[ajusa]

Alright, with the latest iface (nimble uninstall iface then do a nimble install this issue has been fixed for Nim 1.6. I verified that I could compile everything on my machine as well. @TurtleP you can close this now.