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The following sections give platform-specific instructions on how to The following sections give platform-specific instructions on how to
compile and install Nimble. compile and install Nimble.
### Unix ### Source based installation
On Unix-like operating systems Nimble can be compiled and installed with two Run this command in your **Nim** directory::
simple
commands. After successfully grabbing the latest Nim compiler simply execute
the following commands to clone nimble, compile it and then install it.
git clone https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble.git nim e install_nimble.nims
cd nimble
nim -d:release c -r src/nimble -y install
After these steps are completed successfully, nimble will be installed This assumes that you also used the source based installation and added
in ``~/.nimble/bin``. You must then add ``$nim/bin`` to your ``PATH``. If you create a symlink to ``nim`` instead,
``~/.nimble/bin`` to your ``$PATH``. Updating nimble can then be done by you also need to create a symlink for ``nimble``.
executing ``nimble install nimble``.
### Windows ### Windows
You can install Nimble via a pre-built installation archive which is You can install Nimble via a pre-built installation archive which is
available on the [releases](https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/releases) page. available on the [releases](https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/releases) page.
Alternatively, you can also install Nimble from source, but the instructions Alternatively, you can also install Nimble from source.
for doing so are a bit different on Windows.
#### Using the pre-built archives #### Using the pre-built archives