invocation of external compiler program failed. The system cannot find the file specified

2023-03-26 Thread sls1005
It means Nim failed to call the C compiler ("external compiler program") for generating object files. Please ensure that you have a C compiler installed and is in `PATH`. As it processed successfully until the step of generating obj files, it's safe to assume that Nim's installed well but not th

invocation of external compiler program failed. The system cannot find the file specified

2023-03-25 Thread nimzwei
Hi, sorry for digging up the old post, but i have a similar problem. I have installed nim i wrong dictionary at first, so i moved it and launched finish.exe again. The problem is that the compiler seemed to be installed in the wrong/non existing place. How to change the source location so that i

invocation of external compiler program failed. The system cannot find the file specified

2020-08-12 Thread Tuatarian
I installed mingw in the dist folder (using finish.exe, did not work if I didn't run as administrator, with admin rights) in my nim installation and it works! thank you!

invocation of external compiler program failed. The system cannot find the file specified

2020-08-12 Thread Stefan_Salewski
You did not tell us how you installed the Nim compiler. On the Windows install page [https://nim-lang.org/install_windows.html](https://nim-lang.org/install_windows.html) there is the note: > The zip file includes a simple application called finish.exe that can attempt > to Have you executed

invocation of external compiler program failed. The system cannot find the file specified

2020-08-12 Thread Tuatarian
This happens with any script I run, even something like 1 | echo "Hello World". Don't know why Full error message: Error: invocation of external compiler program failed. The system cannot find the file specified. Additional info: "Requested command not found: 'gcc.ex