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4664 :: So Noob ,so confused

• IkkiSpyykes (orginal) [2019-02-17T18:40:33+01:00] view original

  Hi Peeps, I'm very pleased to being checking out this language that you've been growing. The set up procedure is difficult to me. I have 0 unix experience and know basics about cmd line. It gets loaded and then it just sits there. I do run finish and thats all it does; I press on the nim crown and it sorta loads the command prompt terminal for milliseconds and then blinks off into nothingness. What is PCRE and SSL?.. I ask these questions goofy and naive as if I shouldve looked them up but that leads to my other questions on general install setups.

  it was Rust or some other language I was checkingout .. it asked me to build something like I need to use Cngwin64 to get things rolling and am pretty sure I'm doing that wrong too. I don't expect you to set up another lang for me its just that cmake doesn't make sense how to run it.

  The instructions say "build something? . We don't have Home Depot or Lowes around here .. What is this , Field of Dreams or something?. I'll cut to the chase.. having said what I says.. I don't know what it is I ask just to learn how to get to the "hello world" processes. I do have an editor, I got a clue what compile means and have downloaded all variants of MingGW for my code::blocks self traumatization. I have set paths a few times now. and know nothing about bash programming. help would be appreciated. thanx, hope had good weekend.

  programming type: I took a Juce tutorial and am moving from just getting Juce and Codeblocks to not ignore each other to audio programming and knowing nothing about a few more things. I bought this synth editor named Flowstone that works with Ruby code but I don't know Ruby yet either.. not well enough to customize that thing yet.

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• Araq (orginal) [2019-02-18T11:51:01+01:00] view original

  Click on start.bat, not on nim.exe and run something like cd path_to_hello_nim and then nim c -r myhello.nim. You don't need PCRE or SSL, Nim ships with them. You don't need to install MingGW, finish.exe does that for you, you need to let finish.exe write the PATH. And by now your computer setup is probably so messed up that nothing works, read about the basics of your operating system, presumably Windows:

  http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/command_line.shtml

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