From d60e0211bc6a360da15be72c48b8062081e785f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bptato <60043228+bptato@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 23:45:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix nimIoselector define in std/selectors (#25104)

Also added some documentation to the header.

See: https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/13311

> I did try using the flag, but couldn't get it to work. If I do
-d:nimIoSelector, the defined check passes, but the other code fails to
compile because there is no const named nimIoSelector. It seemed like a
bug to me, do you have a working number compiler invocation?

Co-authored-by: ringabout <43030857+ringabout@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 lib/pure/selectors.nim | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/pure/selectors.nim b/lib/pure/selectors.nim
index f4ea498880..9391c391ca 100644
--- a/lib/pure/selectors.nim
+++ b/lib/pure/selectors.nim
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@
 ## Solaris (files, sockets, handles and user events).
 ## Android (files, sockets, handles and user events).
 ##
+## By default, the implementation is chosen based on the target
+## platform; you can pass `-d:nimIoselector=value` to override it.
+## Accepted values are "epoll", "kqueue", "poll", and "select".
+##
 ## TODO: `/dev/poll`, `event ports` and filesystem events.
 
 import std/nativesockets
@@ -342,7 +346,9 @@ else:
           res = int(fdLim.rlim_cur) - 1
         res
 
-  when defined(nimIoselector):
+  const nimIoselector {.strdefine.} = ""
+
+  when nimIoselector != "":
     when nimIoselector == "epoll":
       include ioselects/ioselectors_epoll
     elif nimIoselector == "kqueue":