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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). http://nim-lang.org/

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Araq 654a99266f Merge branch 'master' of github.com:Araq/Nimrod		2012-12-09 03:03:14 +01:00
compiler	compiler support for babel	2012-12-07 17:20:51 +01:00
config	Fixes SSL httpclient and problems with hidden path splitting in OS.	2012-12-02 13:21:21 +00:00
devel	openarray/varargs split; breaks bootstrapping	2012-08-16 08:34:33 +02:00
doc	documented AST overloading and some TR optimizations	2012-12-09 03:02:52 +01:00
examples	Merge pull request #253 from gradha/pr_reduce_todo_code_repetition	2012-11-18 05:12:32 -08:00
icons	restored files that 'koch clean' removed	2012-04-16 16:43:41 +02:00
lib	Fixes SSL implementation of sendAsync.	2012-12-08 19:27:00 +00:00
packages/docutils	made 'shared' a keyword	2012-11-22 07:53:50 +01:00
tests	documented AST overloading and some TR optimizations	2012-12-09 03:02:52 +01:00
tinyc	docgen understands and ignores when false	2010-11-18 22:26:20 +01:00
tools	doc2 support for nimweb; fixed graphics.withEvents	2012-11-01 08:32:30 +01:00
web	documented AST overloading and some TR optimizations	2012-12-09 03:02:52 +01:00
.gitignore	Adds command line interface for todo example.	2012-11-01 20:41:16 +01:00
build.bat	rebuilt C sources	2012-11-18 01:41:16 +01:00
build64.bat	rebuilt C sources	2012-11-18 01:41:16 +01:00
contributors.txt	tr macros now documented	2012-09-10 19:34:16 +02:00
copying.txt	little fixes for 0.8.14 release	2012-02-09 02:26:08 +01:00
deinstall.sh	version 0.8.10	2010-10-21 00:12:14 +02:00
gpl.html	first (non working) implementation of global thread analysis	2011-06-13 01:40:22 +02:00
install.sh	rebuilt C sources	2012-11-18 01:41:16 +01:00
install.txt	win64 is a supported target; bugfix: nimrod c -r on windows; stdlib uses wide char versions of the WinAPI	2012-03-04 21:44:56 +01:00
koch.nim	first steps for overloading support of passing blocks; bugfix: test results of 'compile' are not overwritten	2012-09-11 08:09:34 +02:00
koch.nimrod.cfg	Fixes bootstrapping.	2012-09-03 19:44:25 +01:00
readme.md	documentation improvements	2012-12-07 17:43:15 +01:00
readme.txt	documentation improvements	2012-12-07 17:43:15 +01:00
start.bat	first (non working) implementation of global thread analysis	2011-06-13 01:40:22 +02:00
todo.txt	documented AST overloading and some TR optimizations	2012-12-09 03:02:52 +01:00

readme.md

Nimrod Compiler

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

Compiling

Compiling the Nimrod compiler is quite straightforward. Because the Nimrod compiler itself is written in the Nimrod programming language the C source of an older version of the compiler are needed to bootstrap the latest version. The C sources are however included with this repository under the build directory.

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
unzip
git or wget

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

$ git clone git://github.com/Araq/Nimrod.git
$ cd Nimrod
$ unzip build/csources.zip
$ ./build.sh
$ bin/nimrod c koch
$ ./koch boot -d:release

The install script (install.sh) may then be used to install Nimrod, or you can simply add it to your PATH.

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 #nimrod.

License

The compiler is licensed under the GPLv2 license, the standard library is licensed under the LGPL license with a linking exception so that you can link to it statically. This means that you can use any license for your own programs developed with Nimrod, allowing you to create commercial applications.

Read copying.txt for more details.