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/Nimrod/tarball/master]]
• wget + tar wget --no-check-certificate "https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod/tarball/master"
• git git clone --depth 1 git://github.com/Araq/Nimrod.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)
• nimrod c koch
• koch boot [-d:release]
• Put Nimrod on your PATH
  • For Linux, you only need a symlink: ln -s $PWD/bin/nimrod /home/user/bin

Babel

Babel is Nimrod's package manager

• Download the source from [[https://github.com/nimrod-code/babel]] using one of the above methods.
• nimrod c babel
• ln -s $PWD/babel /home/user/bin
• babel update