Download Nimony

Nimony ships as a prebuilt toolchain, rebuilt every day from the latest master of nim-lang/nimony. Unpack it, put bin/ on your PATH, and you have the compiler, the standard library and every tool in one directory. With the native backend no other tools (C compiler, assembler, linker) are required.

Nightly toolchain

Fresh build from nimony’s master, published daily.

Linux x86_64 · tar.xz Linux ARM64 · tar.xz macOS Apple silicon · tar.xz Windows x86_64 · zip

Every nightly is a separate, versioned release — the download URL pins an exact commit, so a build you tested never changes underneath you. All releases · Build from source

Install

Linux and macOS:

tar xf nimony-*-linux_amd64.tar.xz
export PATH="$PWD/nimony/bin:$PATH"
nimony --version

Windows: unzip the archive and add the extracted nimony\bin to your PATH.

The archive ships a native backend, and nimony n goes from your source to a finished executable using nothing but the tools in bin/. arkham generates machine code and nifasm writes the ELF, Mach-O or PE image itself. This works on every platform we publish, and it is particularly useful on Window which does not ship with a C compiler.

The C backend (nimony c) is still the default and does need a C compiler on the PATH — gcc or clang on Unix. On Windows, run

hastur install

from the extracted directory once and it downloads a bundled MinGW + LLVM toolchain into external/.

First program

import std / syncio

echo "Hello from Nimony!"

Via the native backend — no C compiler involved:

nimony n -r hello.nim

Or via the C backend:

nimony c -r hello.nim

See the manual for the language, the library index for what is available to import, and Tools for the rest of the toolchain — including pnak, which fetches the dependencies of a project.

What is in the archive

Path	Contents
`bin/`	`nimony` and every tool it shells out to
`lib/`	the Nimony standard library
`src/lib/`	NIF libraries used by macros and plugins
`NIGHTLY.txt`	the exact nimony commit, date and platform of this build

Each archive is smoke-tested in CI before it is published: the packaged tree alone — nothing else installed — has to compile and run a hello-world program.

Other ways to get Nimony

Build from source — needs Nim 2.0 or later and one hastur build all invocation. This is the path to take if you want to hack on the compiler itself.
All nightly releases — every published build, newest first, with per-commit tags.