The Atlas Package cloner. It manages an isolated workspace that contains projects and dependencies.
Upcoming Nim version 2.0 will ship with atlas. Building from source is unfortunately a bit complicated:
mkdir atlasbuild
cd atlasbuild
git clone https://github.com/nim-lang/nim.git
git clone https://github.com/nim-lang/atlas.git
cd atlas
nim c src/atlas.nim
# copy src/atlas[.exe] somewhere in your PATH
Create a new workspace. A workspace contains everything we need and can savely be deleted after this tutorial:
mkdir workspace
cd workspace
atlas init
Create a new project inside the workspace:
mkdir myproject
cd myproject
Tell Atlas we want to use the "malebolgia" library:
atlas use malebolgia
Now import malebolgia in your Nim code and run the compiler as usual:
echo "import malebolgia" >myproject.nim
nim c myproject.nim