To get the source code you need either of these: * A working web browser + tar(or equivalent): https://github.com/Araq/Nim/tarball/master * wget + tar: `wget --no-check-certificate "https://github.com/Araq/Nim/tarball/master"` * git: `git clone --depth 1 git://github.com/Araq/Nim.git` ### Bootstrapping After downloading the source (and extracting it), you need to extract build/csources.zip then you can bootstrap with: * `./build.sh` or `build.bat` (Windows) * `nim c koch` * `koch boot [-d:release]` * Put Nim on your PATH * For Linux, you only need a symlink: `ln -s $PWD/bin/nim /home/user/bin` ### Nimble Nimble is Nim's package manager * Download the source from https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble using one of the above methods. * `nim c nimble` * `ln -s $PWD/nimble /home/user/bin` * `nimble update`