nim-wiki/Getting-Started.md

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

A simple script

git clone git://github.com/Araq/Nim.git
cd Nim
git clone --depth 1 git://github.com/nim-lang/csources
cd csources && sh build.sh
cd ..
bin/nim c koch
./koch boot -d:release

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