belenix / nim

Nim (formerly known as "Nimrod") is a compiled, garbage-collected systems programming language which has an excellent productivity/performance ratio. Nim's design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, elegance (in the order of priority).

Nim Compiler

This repo contains the Nim compiler, Nim's stdlib, tools and documentation.

Compiling

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.

Pre-compiled snapshots of the compiler are also available on Nimbuild. Your platform however may not currently be built for.

The compiler currently supports the following platform and architecture combinations:

• Windows (Windows XP or greater) - x86 and x86_64
• Linux (most, if not all, distributions) - x86, x86_64, ppc64 and armv6l
• Mac OS X 10.04 or higher - x86, x86_64 and ppc64

In reality a lot more are supported, however they are not tested regularly.

To build from source you will need:

• gcc 3.x or later recommended. Other alternatives which may work are: clang, Visual C++, Intel's C++ compiler
• git or wget

If you are on a fairly modern *nix system, the following steps should work:

$ git clone git://github.com/Araq/Nim.git
$ cd Nim
$ git clone --depth 1 git://github.com/nim-lang/csources
$ cd csources && sh build.sh
$ cd ..
$ bin/nim c koch
$ ./koch boot -d:release

koch install [dir] may then be used to install Nim, or you can simply add it to your PATH. More koch related options are documented in 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.

Getting help

A forum is available if you have any questions, and you can also get help in the IRC channel on Freenode in #nim. If you ask questions on StackOverflow use the nim tag.

License

The compiler and the standard library are licensed under the MIT license, except for some modules where the documentation suggests otherwise. This means that you can use any license for your own programs developed with Nim, allowing you to create commercial applications.

Read copying.txt for more details.

Copyright (c) 2006-2014 Andreas Rumpf. All rights reserved.

Build Status

	Linux	Windows	Mac
x86
x86_64
arm