gcc no longer supported? Tried this workaround - and it worked
[grassy@archi3 nim]$ uname -a
Linux archi3 4.15.9-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Mar 11 17:54:33 UTC 2018
x86_64 GNU/Linux
[grassy@archi3 nim]$ cat hello.nim
echo "Hello, World!"
[grassy@archi3 nim]$ cat hello.nim.cfg
arm.android.gcc.path ="/home/grassy/android-toolchain/bin"
arm.android.gcc.exe = "arm-linux-androideabi-gcc"
arm.android.gcc.linkerexe = "arm-linux-androideabi-gcc"
[grassy@archi3 nim]$ nim c --cc:gcc -d:release --cpu:arm --os:android
--verbosity:2 hello
config/nim.cfg(47, 3) Hint: added path:
'/home/grassy/.nimble/pkgs/c2nim-0.9.13' [Path]
config/nim.cfg(47, 3) Hint: added path:
'/home/grassy/.nimble/pkgs/compiler-#604a15c0aaf6d3df2' [Path]
config/nim.cfg(47, 3) Hint: added path: '/home/grassy/.nimble/pkgs/' [Path]
config/nim.cfg(49, 5) Hint: added path: '/opt/nimble/pkgs/' [Path]
Hint: used config file
'/home/grassy/.choosenim/toolchains/nim-0.18.0/config/nim.cfg' [Conf]
Hint: used config file '/home/grassy/nim/hello.nim.cfg' [Conf]
Hint: system [Processing]
Hint: hello [Processing]
/home/grassy/android-toolchain/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-gcc -c -w -O3
-fno-strict-aliasing -I/home/grassy/.choosenim/toolchains/nim-0.18.0/lib -o
/home/grassy/nim/nimcache/hello.o /home/grassy/nim/nimcache/hello.c
/home/grassy/android-toolchain/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-gcc -c -w -O3
-fno-strict-aliasing -I/home/grassy/.choosenim/toolchains/nim-0.18.0/lib -o
/home/grassy/nim/nimcache/stdlib_system.o
/home/grassy/nim/nimcache/stdlib_system.c
Hint: /home/grassy/android-toolchain/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-gcc -o
/home/grassy/nim/hello /home/grassy/nim/nimcache/hello.o
/home/grassy/nim/nimcache/stdlib_system.o -ldl [Exec]
/home/grassy/nim/nimcache/stdlib_system.o:stdlib_system.c:function
echoBinSafe: error: undefined reference to 'stdout'
/home/grassy/nim/nimcache/stdlib_system.o:stdlib_system.c:function
echoBinSafe: error: undefined reference to 'stdout'
/home/grassy/nim/nimcache/stdlib_system.o:stdlib_system.c:function
showErrorMessage_rsUJ87b89bH0GlWKYL9c8wUQ: error: undefined reference to
'stderr'
/home/grassy/nim/nimcache/stdlib_system.o:stdlib_system.c:function
signalHandler: error: undefined reference to 'stderr'
/home/grassy/nim/nimcache/stdlib_system.o:stdlib_system.c:function
writeToStdErr_7HRVfGfZT2rSmBdcLxl8TA: error: undefined reference to 'stderr'
/home/grassy/nim/nimcache/stdlib_system.o:stdlib_system.c:function
registerSignalHandler_njssp69aa7hvxte9bJ8uuDcg_2: error: undefined reference to
'signal'
/home/grassy/nim/nimcache/stdlib_system.o:stdlib_system.c:function
registerSignalHandler_njssp69aa7hvxte9bJ8uuDcg_2: error: undefined reference to
'signal'
/home/grassy/nim/nimcache/stdlib_system.o:stdlib_system.c:function
registerSignalHandler_njssp69aa7hvxte9bJ8uuDcg_2: error: undefined reference to
'signal'
/home/grassy/nim/nimcache/stdlib_system.o:stdlib_system.c:function
registerSignalHandler_njssp69aa7hvxte9bJ8uuDcg_2: error: undefined reference to
'signal'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Error: execution of an external program failed:
'/home/grassy/android-toolchain/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-gcc -o
/home/grassy/nim/hello /home/grassy/nim/nimcache/hello.o
/home/grassy/nim/nimcache/stdlib_system.o -ldl'
[grassy@archi3 nim]$ sed -i 's/-gcc/-clang/g' hello.nim.cfg
[grassy@archi3 nim]$ cat hello.nim.cfg
arm.android.gcc.path ="/home/grassy/android-toolchain/bin"
arm.android.gcc.exe = "arm-linux-androideabi-clang"
arm.android.gcc.linkerexe = "arm-linux-androideabi-clang"
[grassy@archi3 nim]$ nim c --cc:gcc -d:release --cpu:arm --os:android
--verbosity:2 hello
config/nim.cfg(47, 3) Hint: added path:
'/home/grassy/.nimble/pkgs/c2nim-0.9.13' [Path]
config/nim.cfg(47, 3) Hint: added path:
'/home/grassy/.nimble/pkgs/compiler-#604a15c0aaf6d3df2' [Path]
config/nim.cfg(47, 3) Hint: added path: '/home/grassy/.nimble/pkgs/' [Path]
config/nim.cfg(49, 5) Hint: added path: '/opt/nimble/pkgs/' [Path]
Hint: used config file
'/home/grassy/.choosenim/toolchains/nim-0.18.0/config/nim.cfg' [Conf]
Hint: used config file 'hello.nim.cfg' [Conf]
Hint: system [Processing]
Hint: hello [Processing]
/home/grassy/android-toolchain/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-clang -c -w -O3
-fno-strict-aliasing -I/home/grassy/.choosenim/toolchains/nim-0.18.0/lib -o
/home/grassy/nim/nimcache/hello.o /home/grassy/nim/nimcache/hello.c
/home/grassy/android-toolchain/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-clang -c -w -O3
-fno-strict-aliasing -I/home/grassy/.choosenim/toolchains/nim-0.18.0/lib -o
/home/grassy/nim/nimcache/stdlib_system.o
/home/grassy/nim/nimcache/stdlib_system.c
Hint: /home/grassy/android-toolchain/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-clang -o
hello /home/grassy/nim/nimcache/hello.o
/home/grassy/nim/nimcache/stdlib_system.o -ldl [Exec]
Hint: operation successful (11721 lines compiled; 0.597 sec total;
18.289MiB peakmem; Release Build) [SuccessX]
[GC] total memory: 19177472
[GC] occupied memory: 12637760
[GC] stack scans: 550
[GC] stack cells: 1984
[GC] cycle collections: 0
[GC] max threshold: 0
[GC] zct capacity: 1024
[GC] max cycle table size: 0
[GC] max pause time [ms]: 0
[GC] max stack size: 64576
[grassy@archi3 nim]$ file hello
hello: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically
linked, interpreter /system/bin/linker, with debug_info, not stripped
