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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 |