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| author | Araq <rumpf_a@web.de> | 2015-09-05 11:28:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Araq <rumpf_a@web.de> | 2015-09-05 11:34:38 +0200 |
| commit | 49d810f3410c19803f2d6fbfb3feb03e1fc13fee (patch) | |
| tree | f2c3db06b635a1c45d06d4b49e67ca9795e5a83f /readme.md | |
| parent | 0f2a37cf1b64bfa34da0f899a1f76b28665c8c89 (diff) | |
| download | Nim-49d810f3410c19803f2d6fbfb3feb03e1fc13fee.tar.gz | |
Nimble is officially a part of Nim now
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diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md index 277ceb8f3..6aa562f2a 100644 --- a/readme.md +++ b/readme.md @@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ documentation. Compiling the Nim compiler is quite straightforward. Because the Nim compiler itself is written in the Nim programming language the C source of an older version of the compiler are needed to bootstrap the -latest version. The C sources are available in a separate repo [here](http://github.com/nim-lang/csources). +latest version. The C sources are available in a separate +repo [here](http://github.com/nim-lang/csources). The compiler currently supports the following platform and architecture combinations: @@ -35,13 +36,24 @@ $ bin/nim c koch $ ./koch boot -d:release ``` -``koch install [dir]`` may then be used to install Nim, but lots of things don't work then so don't do that. Add it to your PATH instead. More ``koch`` related options are documented in -[doc/koch.txt](doc/koch.txt). +``koch install [dir]`` may then be used to install Nim, but lots of things +don't work then so don't do that. Add it to your PATH instead. More ``koch`` +related options are documented in [doc/koch.txt](doc/koch.txt). The above steps can be performed on Windows in a similar fashion, the ``build.bat`` and ``build64.bat`` (for x86_64 systems) are provided to be used instead of ``build.sh``. + +## Nimble +[Nimble](https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble) is Nim's package manager. For the +source based installations where you added Nim's ``bin`` directory to your PATH +the easiest way of installing Nimble is via: + +``` +$ nim e install_nimble.nims +``` + ## Getting help A [forum](http://forum.nim-lang.org/) is available if you have any questions, and you can also get help in the IRC channel on |