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| author | Dominik Picheta <dominikpicheta@googlemail.com> | 2018-04-01 00:50:48 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-04-01 00:50:48 +0100 |
| commit | f97decaa2fbaafb90dd1e79616891cb72a754ec7 (patch) | |
| tree | bdfdb0ac0abc2ff50ff184da4bbbc4fa52ad559a /readme.md | |
| parent | 455dd3613559ef43fc7609580d7658ceaa7a36fe (diff) | |
| download | Nim-f97decaa2fbaafb90dd1e79616891cb72a754ec7.tar.gz | |
Improve compilation instructions in readme
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diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md index ebcf5f802..5a19a35f3 100644 --- a/readme.md +++ b/readme.md @@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ Nim from source using ``gcc``, ``git`` and the ``koch`` build tool (in the place of ``sh build.sh`` you should substitute ``build.bat`` on x86 Windows or ``build64.bat`` on x86_64 Windows): +**Note: These instructions apply to the development version of the compiler.** +For most users, installing the latest stable version is enough. Check out +the installation instructions on the website to do so: https://nim-lang.org/install.html. + ``` git clone https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim.git cd Nim @@ -61,6 +65,7 @@ sh build.sh cd ../ bin/nim c koch ./koch boot -d:release +./koch tools # Compile Nimble and other tools. ``` Finally, once you have finished the build steps (on Windows, Mac or Linux) you @@ -80,11 +85,9 @@ For more information on the ``koch`` build tool please see the documentation within the [doc/koch.rst](doc/koch.rst) file. ## Nimble -``nimble`` is Nim's package manager and it can be acquired from the -[``nim-lang/nimble``][nimble-repo] repository. Assuming that you added Nim's -``bin`` directory to your PATH, you may install Nimble from source by running -``koch nimble`` within the root of the cloned repository. +``nimble`` is Nim's package manager. To learn more about it, see the +[``nim-lang/nimble``][nimble-repo] repository. ## Contributors |