install nimlsp failed in MacOS

[jayli]

~/ttt/nim/nimlsp (master*) » nim --version 
Nim Compiler Version 1.6.4 [MacOSX: amd64]
Compiled at 2022-02-16
Copyright (c) 2006-2021 by Andreas Rumpf
active boot switches: -d:release
~/ttt/nim/nimlsp (master*) » nimble --version   
nimble v0.13.1 compiled at 2022-02-16 11:50:10
git hash: couldn't determine git hash

I don't know why.

[PMunch]

Did you read the full section under "Installing NimLSP"? Quoting that section:

This will compile and install it in the nimble binary directory, which if you have set up nimble correctly it should be in your path. When compiling and using nimlsp it needs to have Nim's sources available in order to work. With Nim installed through choosenim these should already be on your system and nimlsp should be able to find and use them automatically. However if you have installed nimlsp in a different way you might run into issues where it can't find certain files during compilation/running. To fix this you need to grab a copy of Nim sources and then point nimlsp at them on compile-time by using -d:explicitSourcePath=PATH, where PATH is where you have your Nim sources. You can also pass them at run-time (if for example you're working with a custom copy of the stdlib by passing it as an argument to nimlsp. How exectly to do that will depend on the LSP client.

I'm guessing you have Nim installed via some kind of package manager, and therefore the sources for Nim aren't where NimLSP needs them to be. You can pass the sources explicitly or you can install Nim with choosenim (recommended anyways).

This is also probably a duplicate of #54

[jayli]

thank you!
it works!