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| author | Ray Imber <rayimber@gmail.com> | 2020-07-27 23:04:04 -0700 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-07-28 02:04:04 -0400 |
| commit | d60fae576f3228c1cee360129b687a1e8c6a8ed8 (patch) | |
| tree | 0c2a6c290285b42c102fc9f93f1db2eca5db6e3a | |
| parent | e6f0d4a5a59f8230133481d25ce1c3f6e8daf0a5 (diff) | |
| download | Nim-d60fae576f3228c1cee360129b687a1e8c6a8ed8.tar.gz | |
Improvements to Windows install instructions (#15099)
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diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md index 94241822f..4ef10f231 100644 --- a/readme.md +++ b/readme.md @@ -52,6 +52,12 @@ Next, to build from source you will need: * Either ``git`` or ``wget`` to download the needed source repositories. * The ``build-essential`` package when using ``gcc`` on Ubuntu (and likely other distros as well). + * On Windows MinGW 4.3.0 (GCC 8.10) is the minimum recommended compiler. + * Nim hosts a known working MinGW distribution: + * [MinGW32.7z](https://nim-lang.org/download/mingw32.7z) + * [MinGW64.7z](https://nim-lang.org/download/mingw64.7z) + +**Windows Note: Cygwin and similar posix runtime environments are not supported.** Then, if you are on a \*nix system or Windows, the following steps should compile Nim from source using ``gcc``, ``git`` and the ``koch`` build tool. @@ -75,6 +81,9 @@ Next run the appropriate build shell script for your platform: * `build_all.sh` (Linux, Mac) * `build_all.bat` (Windows) +Windows requires a number of other dependencies that you may need to install including +PCRE and OpenSSL. Nim hosts a zip package containing known working versions of the +required DLLs [here](https://nim-lang.org/download/dlls.zip). Finally, once you have finished the build steps (on Windows, Mac or Linux) you should add the ``bin`` directory to your PATH. |