TravisCI

Building Nim projects on Travis CI

Building your code on Travis CI is useful to check regressions against the master and devel branches of Nim. Same for your code documentation.

# Copied from https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/TravisCI
language: c
env:
  # Build and test against the master and devel branches of Nim
  - BRANCH=master
  - BRANCH=devel
compiler:
  # Build and test using both gcc and clang
  - gcc
  - clang
matrix:
  allow_failures:
    # Ignore failures when building against the devel Nim branch
    - env: BRANCH=devel
  fast_finish: true
install:
  - |
    if [ ! -x nim-$BRANCH/bin/nim ]; then
      git clone -b $BRANCH --depth 1 git://github.com/nim-lang/nim nim-$BRANCH/
      cd nim-$BRANCH
      git clone -b $BRANCH --depth 1 git://github.com/nim-lang/csources csources/
      cd csources
      sh build.sh
      cd ..
      rm -rf csources
      bin/nim c koch
      ./koch boot -d:release
    else
      cd nim-$BRANCH
      git fetch origin
      if ! git merge FETCH_HEAD | grep "Already up-to-date"; then
        bin/nim c koch
        ./koch boot -d:release
      fi
    fi
    cd ..
before_script:
    - export PATH="nim-$BRANCH/bin${PATH:+:$PATH}"
script:
    # Replace uppercase strings!
    - nim c --cc:$CC --verbosity:0 -r MYFILE.nim
    # Optional: build docs.
    - nim doc --docSeeSrcUrl:https://github.com/AUTHOR/MYPROJECT/blob/master --project MYFILE.nim
cache:
  directories:
    - nim-master
    - nim-devel
branches:
  except:
    - gh-pages

Smaller cache with infrequent updates

For speed, it is better to use a smaller cache, and to update only when you want to test with the latest Nim compiler.

For a quick set-up, fork this nim-project-template, attach a TravisCI Webhook, and git push. To update the nim compiler, just clear the cache via the settings drop-down at the upper-right in TravisCI, and rebuild.

Other ideas

• Easy travis integration with latest nim devel