"compiler" directory is required by some Nimrod tools.

[philip-wernersbach]

Some tools like c2nim use files from the "compiler" directory, but the compiler directory isn't installed when issuing a koch install. The workaround is to copy the compiler directory to the Nimrod install directory manually, which we have to do for Homebrew/legacy-homebrew#34693.

There should be a better system of sharing the files in compiler with the tools that need them. I'm not sure that modifying koch to do a wholesale copy of the compiler directory would be beneficial here, since the amount of tools that rely on these files is small.

[skyfex]

Personally I think the whole compiler should be refactored out into nimble packages. There's lots of little modules there that would make sense as stand-alone nimble packages. But I also think it would be very nice if the compiler was split into a nim library (which could be used directly from tools, IDE's and script libraries if desired, like you can with LLVM) and a nim compiler tool.

Only issue is how you would bootstrap this setup. But I think it could be worth it.

[philip-wernersbach]

@skyfex: What's in the compiler that would be beneficial as a general purpose nimble package? I'm not very knowledgeable about what's actually in compiler.

@Araq, @dom96: Any word on this? 0.10.2 is out and contains this bug. To me this is High Priority as it breaks c2nim, and I figure lots of people will test out C integration when experimenting with Nim.

[Araq]

c2nim now finally works via Nimble so I consider this fixed.

[philip-wernersbach]

Thanks! Good enough for me as a package maintainer. Eventually I'd like to see @skyfex's suggestion implemented, but that's for another day.

[reactormonk]

@philip-wernersbach In progress: #623