Overview
This is a quick attempt to get the Nim compiler and nimble package manager bundled into a Docker image.
The base image is Alpine Linux (see: https://registry.hub.docker.com/_/alpine/) which keeps things slim.
Layout
Nim is compiled from the latest github source and is in: /opt/Nim
nimble is also compiled from source, but only the compiled binary is kept.
PATH is updated to include: /opt/Nim/bin and /root/.nimble/bin so both
nim and nimble will be in the PATH by default.
WORKDIR is set to /src so if you -v mount your local directory to /src you can run the
compiler directly without changing directory first.
Usage
By using the -v flag with docker run you can use this image to compile your Nim sources without
a local Nim installation. For example, to compile and run hello.nim from this repo:
docker run --rm -v `pwd`:/src coopernurse/nim nim c -r --verbosity:0 hello.nim
Or to compile to a binary:
docker run --rm -v `pwd`:/src coopernurse/nim nim c hello.nim