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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