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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.
- 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:
- ::
- # build from C sources and then using koch
- ./build.sh --os $os_type --cpu $cpu_arch
- ./bin/nim c koch
- ./koch boot -d:release
- # optionally generate docs into doc/html
- ./koch docs
- ./koch tools -d:release
- # extract files to be really installed
- ./install.sh <tempdir>
- # also include the tools
- for fn in nimble nimsuggest nimgrep; do cp ./bin/$fn <tempdir>/nim/bin/; done
- What to install:
- - The expected stdlib location is /usr/lib/nim
- - 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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