nim-wiki/Creating-a-release.md

• Run the full testsuite (tests\testament\tester all) and ensure it's green; actually ensure travis is green (Usually the case these days)

• Update news.txt

• write a news ticker entry

• Update the version

  • In system.nim
  • In compiler.nimble
  • In lib/stdlib.nimble

• Recompile koch!

• Generate the full docs; koch web0

• Generate the installers

  • koch csource -d:release
  • koch xz
  • koch nsis

• Test the installers: koch testinstall

• Tag the release

• Merge devel into master

• Update csources

To build the Windows release, currently this .bat file is used which is rather tied to my computer.

set NIMVER=0.14.2

Rem Build -docs file:
koch web0
cd web\upload
7z a -tzip docs-%NIMVER%.zip *.html
move /y docs-%NIMVER%.zip download
cd ..\..

Rem Build .zip file:
REm koch csources -d:release
rem koch xz -d:release
rem move /y build\nim-%NIMVER%.zip web\upload\download

ReM Build Win32 version:

set PATH=C:\Users\Anwender\projects\nim\dist\mingw\bin;%PATH%
cd build
call build.bat
cd ..
nim c koch || exit /b
koch boot -d:release || exit /b
cd ..\nimsuggest
nim c -d:release --noNimblePath --path:..\nim  nimsuggest || exit /b
copy /y nimsuggest.exe ..\nim\bin || exit /b
cd ..\nim
koch nsis -d:release || exit /b
move /y build\nim_%NIMVER%.exe web\upload\download\nim-%NIMVER%_x32.exe || exit /b


ReM Build Win64 version:
set PATH=C:\Users\Anwender\projects\win-builds\bin;%PATH%
cd build
call build64.bat
cd ..
nim c koch || exit /b
koch boot -d:release || exit /b
cd ..\nimsuggest
nim c -d:release --noNimblePath --path:..\nim  nimsuggest || exit /b
copy /y nimsuggest.exe ..\nim\bin || exit /b
cd ..\nim
koch nsis -d:release || exit /b
move /y build\nim_%NIMVER%.exe web\upload\download\nim-%NIMVER%_x64.exe || exit /b