From 92b48dbcad8fc564a2146a5c4fa73aba3dbc99d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 18:22:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fixes 'nim c file_without_nim_ext' regression; refs #5183

---
 compiler/nim.nim | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/compiler/nim.nim b/compiler/nim.nim
index 35afecf205..c458f76f9a 100644
--- a/compiler/nim.nim
+++ b/compiler/nim.nim
@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ proc handleCmdLine(cache: IdentCache) =
       except OSError:
         gProjectFull = gProjectName
       let p = splitFile(gProjectFull)
-      gProjectPath = canonicalizePath p.dir
+      let dir = if p.dir.len > 0: p.dir else: getCurrentDir()
+      gProjectPath = canonicalizePath dir
       gProjectName = p.name
     else:
       gProjectPath = canonicalizePath getCurrentDir()