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authorAndreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>2020-05-06 17:14:38 +0200
committerAndreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>2020-05-06 18:41:24 +0200
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added a new feature: --cc:env so that you can use any C compiler as long as it works like GCC
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@@ -240,6 +240,10 @@ add the ``-f`` flag to force all files to be recompiled.
 The default compiler is defined at the top of ``config\nim.cfg``.
 Changing this setting affects the compiler used by ``koch`` to (re)build Nim.
 
+To use the ``CC`` environment variable, use ``nim c --cc:env myfile.nim``. To use the
+``CXX`` environment variable, use ``nim cpp --cc:env myfile.nim``. ``--cc:env`` is available
+since Nim version 1.4.
+
 
 Cross compilation
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