> Just grab the zip and extract them to some directory.
It is an emerging tradition for modern Windows developers, in sheer child-like
optimism, to run choco install nim first - and then die a little inside when
they see the version number... It is an important ritual, to psychologically
prepare you for what comes next. Then we uninstall it, download the proper zip,
and draggy-drop its contents somewhere on C:.
And add it to PATH (as well as .nimblebin). It's not as straightforward as vi
~/.profile on Windows of course, but at least in Win10 you press Start and
start typing "envi" \- clicking your way to that stupid dialog box on older
Windows versions required sacrificing a goat.
And install Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition (because using LLVM
requires even more additional undocumented steps; and using Cygwin / Msys64 /
etc will make your compile times a lot slower). And read all the Microsoft EULA
legalize you just agreed to - I'm no lawyer, but your firstborn child might now
legally belong to them.
And install Visual Studio Code + Nim plugin, because that's the only fully
functional Nim IDE that everyone uses (bad news for BSD fans like me).
And install git ("Git for Windows", Msys64, etc), because nothing in modern
software development works without it. Be sure to read every word of GPL - it
is supposedly a contract that you've automagically agreed to. Your second-born
now belongs to Richard Stallman's commune.
And run nim / nimble / vscode via that shortcut for Command Prompt that sets
the environmental variables for Microsoft Visual C++.
And sell your soul to Microsoft even further when the Visual Studio compiler
forces you to create a Microsoft account after 30 days.
And when it doesn't work, file a bug report via the Almighty GitHub - thus
agreeing to all of their legalize and "Code Of Conduct" as well. They will
insert left-wing political propaganda banners into your code, and ban you for
believing in doubleplusungood things like the Y chromosome.
Hooray for modern software development and all our legal overlords!!!1 Because
running genuilely free Unix (where you can pkg install nim) and hosting your
own Fossil repos is just way too complicated...
