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=============
Packaging Nim
=============
This page provide hints on distributing Nim using OS packages.
See [distros](distros.html) for tools to detect Linux distribution at runtime.
See [here](intern.html#bootstrapping-the-compiler-reproducible-builds) for how to
compile reproducible builds.
Supported architectures
-----------------------
Nim runs on a wide variety of platforms. Support on amd64 and i386 is tested regularly, while less popular platforms are tested by the community.
- amd64
- arm64 (aka aarch64)
- armel
- armhf
- i386
- m68k
- mips64el
- mipsel
- powerpc
- ppc64
- ppc64el (aka ppc64le)
- riscv64
The following platforms are seldomly tested:
- alpha
- hppa
- ia64
- mips
- s390x
- sparc64
Packaging for Linux
-------------------
See https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/labels/Installation for installation-related bugs.
Build Nim from the released tarball at https://nim-lang.org/install_unix.html
It is different from the GitHub sources as it contains Nimble, C sources & other tools.
The Debian package ships bash and ksh completion and manpages that can be reused.
Hints on the build process:
```cmd
# build from C sources and then using koch
make -j # supports parallel build
# alternatively: ./build.sh --os $os_type --cpu $cpu_arch
./bin/nim c -d:release koch
./koch boot -d:release
# optionally generate docs into doc/html
./koch docs
./koch tools
# extract files to be really installed
./install.sh <tempdir>
# also include the tools
for fn in nimble nimsuggest nimgrep; do cp ./bin/$fn <tempdir>/nim/bin/; done
```
What to install:
- The expected stdlib location is `/usr/lib/nim/lib`, previously it was just `/usr/lib/nim`
- `nimdoc.css` and `nimdoc.cls` from the `doc` folder should go into `/usr/lib/nim/doc/`
- `tools/debug/nim-gdb.py` should go into `/usr/lib/nim/tools/`
- `tools/dochack/dochack.js` should be installed to `/usr/lib/nim/tools/dochack/`
- Global configuration files under `/etc/nim`
- Optionally: manpages, documentation, shell completion
- When installing documentation, .idx files are not required
- The "compiler" directory contains compiler sources and should not be part of the compiler binary package
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