Installing Nim on Windows

Before we can begin programming in Nim we must first install the standard libraries and compiler.

This is available online from the Nim language site as a simple and free download.

https://nim-lang.org/install_windows.html

Windows users have both 32-bit and 64-bit editions available.

There are several installation methods using choosenim, scoop & manual installation. In these examples, we will use choosenim.

Choosenim installs Nim from the official repositories, its created by Dominik Picheta who is a core developer for the Nim language. It enables fast and easy switching between versions of Nim.

  1. Navigate to the choosenim releases page on the official GitHub repository.
  2. Download the latest release in our case, it will be the choosenim-0.6.0_windows_amd64.zip
  3. Once the download is complete unzip the contents and execute the runme.bat

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Once the installation has run, choosenim is installed into %USERPROFILE%\.choosenim and nim is installed in %USERPROFILE%\.nimble\bin

  1. Add the folder %USERPROFILE%\.nimble\bin to your users’ Path environment variable.
  2. Finally, confirm that Nim is detected correctly by opening a new cmd window and running
nim -v

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