nim-2.0.0: finish.exe couldn't finish its work

[geff10]

error message: Could not patch 'config/nim.cfg' [Error] Reason: patch substring not found: #gcc.path = r"$nim\dist\mingw\bin"

I have mingw. I also tried to reinstall it through chocolatey, update it. Then download the .7z manually from Nim's page, then also through finish.exe

[Araq]

I tested this myself and it worked for me. Also my nim.cfg has this line.

[geff10]

@Araq mine doesn't. Do you have any idea whose (which script's/module's/component's) responsibility is to put that line there?
I would be glad if I could use Nim "out of the box" with minimal to no configuration.

[geff10]

extra info: I try to use Nim in Windows 11 environment (but I assume you already figured it out)

[Araq]

Ping @ringabout can you reproduce this?

[ringabout]

secs

[ringabout]

Btw, you might as well try choosenim, which certainly works for me for the time being.

[ringabout]

Yeah, I can reproduce it. Let me check the config.

Could not patch 'config/nim.cfg' [Error]
Reason: patch substring not found:
#gcc.path = r"$nim\dist\mingw\bin"

[ringabout]

Yeah, the problem is that you might have run the finish.exe more than once. So the line in the config has been replaced by the actual path.

[ringabout]

It's just a warning. Should I add something to detect it by special comments and give a better warning or something?

[geff10]

@ringabout not really just a warning, as Nim didn't work me at all (like if it weren't in the path variable unknown command). I put that line into the config, run finish.exe. It was successful. Now Nim starts, but now I get this error:
[..path_to_code..]Hello.Nim(1, 9) Warning: imported and not used: 'strutils' [UnusedImport]
CC: C:/programs/nim/nim-2.0.0/lib/system/exceptions.nim
Error: invocation of external compiler program failed. The system cannot find the file specified.
Additional info: Requested command not found: 'C:\programs\nim\nim-2.0.0\dist\mingw\bin\gcc.exe -c -w -fmax-errors=3 -mno-ms-bitfields -IC:\programs\nim\nim-2.0.0\lib -ID:[path] -o [userdirectorypath]\nimcache\Hello_d@mC@c@sprograms@[email protected]@slib@[email protected] [userdirectorypath]\nimcache\Hello_d@mC@c@sprograms@[email protected]@slib@[email protected]'. OS error: 2

[ringabout]

What about gcc -v? Does C:\programs\nim\nim-2.0.0\dist\mingw\bin\gcc.exe exist? DId you restart the computer to put path environment variables in effect?