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Packaging Nim
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=============
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This page provide hints on distributing Nim using OS packages.
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See [distros](distros.html) for tools to detect Linux distribution at runtime.
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See [here](intern.html#bootstrapping-the-compiler-reproducible-builds) for how to
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compile reproducible builds.
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Supported architectures
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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.
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- amd64
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- arm64 (aka aarch64)
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- armel
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- armhf
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- i386
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- m68k
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- mips64el
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- mipsel
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- powerpc
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- ppc64
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- ppc64el (aka ppc64le)
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- riscv64
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The following platforms are seldomly tested:
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- alpha
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- hppa
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- ia64
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- mips
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- s390x
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- sparc64
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Packaging for Linux
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See https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/labels/Installation for installation-related bugs.
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Build Nim from the released tarball at https://nim-lang.org/install_unix.html
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It is different from the GitHub sources as it contains Nimble, C sources & other tools.
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The Debian package ships bash and ksh completion and manpages that can be reused.
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Hints on the build process:
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```cmd
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# build from C sources and then using koch
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make -j # supports parallel build
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# alternatively: ./build.sh --os $os_type --cpu $cpu_arch
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./bin/nim c -d:release koch
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./koch boot -d:release
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# optionally generate docs into doc/html
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./koch docs
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./koch tools
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# extract files to be really installed
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./install.sh <tempdir>
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# also include the tools
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for fn in nimble nimsuggest nimgrep; do cp ./bin/$fn <tempdir>/nim/bin/; done
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```
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What to install:
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- The expected stdlib location is `/usr/lib/nim/lib`, previously it was just `/usr/lib/nim`
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- `nimdoc.css` and `nimdoc.cls` from the `doc` folder should go into `/usr/lib/nim/doc/`
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- `tools/debug/nim-gdb.py` should go into `/usr/lib/nim/tools/`
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- `tools/dochack/dochack.js` should be installed to `/usr/lib/nim/tools/dochack/`
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- Global configuration files under `/etc/nim`
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- Optionally: manpages, documentation, shell completion
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- When installing documentation, .idx files are not required
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- The "compiler" directory contains compiler sources and should not be part of the compiler binary package
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