nim-wiki/Getting-Started.md

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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)
  • 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 Nimrod's package manager