Installation

PhotoNim is available and tested for Linux, MacOSX and Windows machines. To install it you can choose which approach you find the most fitting for you.

Prerequisites

To use PhotoNim you must have installed the Nim programming language (version 2.0 or higher) on your machine. To install the latest version on Unix you could run the following command:

curl https://nim-lang.org/choosenim/init.sh -sSf | sh

To install it on other OSs or to install previous versions, please refer to the Nim installation guide. Most of Nim installation already install the official Nim package manager Nimble. You can verify it by running:

which nimble

Installing from Git

Choose the appropriate protocol (HTTPS or SSH) and clone the PhotoNim repository using the command

git clone https://github.com/Negrini085/PhotoNim.git    # for HTTPS
git clone git@github.com:Negrini085/PhotoNim.git        # for SSH

Installing from Tarball

Download the latest tarball from here and extract the tarball by running the command

tar -xzf PhotoNim-<version>.tar.gz

Installing using Nimble

Install PhotoNim using nimble by running

nimble install PhotoNim

Dependencies

PhotoNim depends on the following packages

docopt >= 0.6
nimPNG >= 0.3

which can be installed using Nimble

cd PhotoNim && nimble install

Other dependencies are used to generate animations:

Verifying the Installation

After installing PhotoNim and its dependencies, you can verify the installation by running PhotoNim test suites using Nimble:

nimble test