Fails to install stable nim on w10

[r0levrai]

PS C:\_r0\nim> .\choosenim-0.8.12_windows_amd64.exe stable
Downloading DLLs (openssl, pcre, ...)
[##################################################] 100.0% 0kb/s
 Extracting dlls.zip
Downloading Nim 2.2.4 from nim-lang.org
[##################################################] 100.0% 0kb/s
 Extracting nim-2.2.4_x64.zip
   Building Nim 2.2.4
  Compiler: Already built
 Exception: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
        ... Additional info: C:\Users\USER NAME\.choosenim\toolchains\nim-2.2.4\bin\nimble.exe -v
   Cleaning failed install of 2.2.4
       Tip: 37 messages have been suppressed, use --verbose to show them.
     Error: Installation failed

I can't call & "C:\Users\USER NAME\.choosenim\toolchains\nim-2.2.4\bin\nimble.exe -v" since the nim-2.2.4 folder was cleaned, and calling choosenim with --verbose don't reveal anything else of interest either.

Happens both from upgrading from nim 2.2.0, and from a fresh install after deleting .nimble and .choosenim, except for the later I also got a bunch of

Warning: Error copying '[lots of dlls]' to 'C:\Users\USER NAME\.nimble\bin': The system cannot find the path specified.
        ... Additional info: ("C:\\Users\\US~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\choosenim-dlls\\[lots of dlls]", "C:\\Users\\USER NAME\\.nimble\\bin\\[lots of dlls]")

unless I create .nimble\bin myself, after which the copies works. Note that I have a space in my USER NAME (sadly, not my pc...) and the the US~1 in the log above.

[Cloudperry]

This is the first time I use Nim on Windows as I have only used it on Linux. I also have this issue. With the workaround of creating .nimble\bin, Choosenim supposedly installs Nim correctly:

C:\Users\ronih\Downloads\choosenim-0.8.14_windows_amd64>runme
Downloading C compiler (Mingw64)
[##################################################] 100.0% 0kb/s
 Extracting mingw64.zip
Downloading DLLs (openssl, pcre, ...)
[##################################################] 100.0% 0kb/s
 Extracting dlls.zip
      Info: Copied 'cacert.pem' to 'C:\Users\ronih\.nimble\bin'
      Info: Copied 'libcrypto-1_1-x64.dll' to 'C:\Users\ronih\.nimble\bin'
      Info: Copied 'libcrypto-1_1.dll' to 'C:\Users\ronih\.nimble\bin'
      Info: Copied 'libcurl.dll' to 'C:\Users\ronih\.nimble\bin'
      Info: Copied 'libssl-1_1-x64.dll' to 'C:\Users\ronih\.nimble\bin'
      Info: Copied 'libssl-1_1.dll' to 'C:\Users\ronih\.nimble\bin'
      Info: Copied 'pcre.dll' to 'C:\Users\ronih\.nimble\bin'
      Info: Copied 'pcre32.dll' to 'C:\Users\ronih\.nimble\bin'
      Info: Copied 'pcre64.dll' to 'C:\Users\ronih\.nimble\bin'
      Info: Copied 'pdcurses.dll' to 'C:\Users\ronih\.nimble\bin'
      Info: Copied 'pdcurses32.dll' to 'C:\Users\ronih\.nimble\bin'
      Info: Copied 'pdcurses64.dll' to 'C:\Users\ronih\.nimble\bin'
      Info: Copied 'sqlite3_32.dll' to 'C:\Users\ronih\.nimble\bin'
      Info: Copied 'sqlite3_64.dll' to 'C:\Users\ronih\.nimble\bin'
Downloading Nim 2.2.4 from nim-lang.org
[##################################################] 100.0% 0kb/s
 Extracting nim-2.2.4_x64.zip
   Building Nim 2.2.4
  Compiler: Already built
  Installed component 'nim'
  Installed component 'nimble'
  Installed component 'nimgrep'
  Installed component 'nimpretty'
  Installed component 'nimsuggest'
  Installed component 'testament'
  Installed component 'nim-gdb'
  Installed component 'gcc'
  Installed component 'g++'
  Installed component 'gdb'
  Installed component 'ld'
   Switched to Nim 2.2.4
        1 file(s) copied.
            Work finished.
            Now you must ensure that the Nimble bin dir is in your PATH:
              C:\Users\ronih\.nimble\bin
Press any key to continue . . .

However trying to compile even a hello world program causes errors:

~/Documents/qmk-layout-switcher> nim c hello.nim
~/Documents/qmk-layout-switcher> Hint: used config file 'C:\Users\ronih\.choosenim\toolchains\nim-2.2.4\config\nim.cfg' [Conf]
Hint: used config file 'C:\Users\ronih\.choosenim\toolchains\nim-2.2.4\config\config.nims' [Conf]
Hint: used config file 'C:\Users\ronih\Documents\qmk-layout-switcher\config.nims' [Conf]
.......................................................................
CC: ../../.choosenim/toolchains/nim-2.2.4/lib/system/exceptions.nim
CC: ../../.choosenim/toolchains/nim-2.2.4/lib/std/private/digitsutils.nim
CC: ../../.choosenim/toolchains/nim-2.2.4/lib/system/dollars.nim
CC: ../../.choosenim/toolchains/nim-2.2.4/lib/std/exitprocs.nim
CC: ../../.choosenim/toolchains/nim-2.2.4/lib/std/syncio.nim
CC: ../../.choosenim/toolchains/nim-2.2.4/lib/system.nim
gcc: fatal error: cannot execute 'cc1': CreateProcess: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
CC: hello.nim
gcc: fatal error: cannot execute 'cc1': CreateProcess: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
gcc: fatal error: cannot execute 'cc1': CreateProcess: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
gcc: fatal error: cannot execute 'cc1': CreateProcess: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
gcc: fatal error: cannot execute 'cc1': CreateProcess: No such file or directory
compilation tHient:r mi [nLiantk]ed
.
gcc: fatal error: cannot execute 'cc1': CreateProcess: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
gcc: fatal error: cannot execute 'cc1': CreateProcess: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
Hint: mm: orc; threads: on; opt: none (DEBUG BUILD, `-d:release` generates faster code)
39106 lines; 0.501s; 48.016MiB peakmem; proj: C:\Users\ronih\Documents\qmk-layout-switcher\hello.nim; out: C:\Users\ronih\Documents\qmk-layout-switcher\hello.exe [SuccessX]
gcc: fatal error: '-fuse-linker-plugin', but liblto_plugin.dll not found
compilation terminated.

Idk why the Nim website even mentions Choosenim as a way to install Nim on Windows, when its this broken. The manual installation works fully.

[SpotlightKid]

@Cloudperry You are using a newer release of choosenim (0.8.14) and the error seems entirely different then the one describe by the original reporter.

Could you please open a separate issue?

[Cloudperry]

Ok fine I will open a different issue about Choosenim making a bad Nim install that doesn't work for compiling programs.

[ringabout]

The new 0.8.16 release #89 seems to resolve the problem of ` nimble bin dir doesn't exist"