atlas

The Atlas Package cloner. It manages project dependencies in an isolated deps/ directory.

Installation

Upcoming Nim version 2.0 will ship with atlas. Building from source:

git clone https://github.com/nim-lang/atlas.git
cd atlas
nim c src/atlas.nim
# copy src/atlas[.exe] somewhere in your PATH

Documentation

Read the full documentation or go through the following tutorial.

Tutorial

Create a new project. A project contains everything we need and can safely be deleted after this tutorial:

mkdir project
cd project
atlas init

Create a new project inside the project:

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

The project structure looks like this:

  $project / project.nimble
  $project / nim.cfg
  $project / other main project files...
  $project / deps / atlas.config
  $project / deps / dependency-A
  $project / deps / dependency-B
  $project / deps / dependency-C.nimble-link (for linked projects)

Using URLs and local folders

atlas use https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
atlas link ../../existingDepdency/

Debugging

Sometimes it's helpful to understand what Atlas is doing. You can run commands with: atlas --verbosity:<trace|debug> to get more information.

Installing Nim with Atlas

atlas env 2.0.0
source deps/nim-2.0.0/activate.sh

Dependencies

Atlas places dependencies in a deps/ directory. This is especially helpful for working with projects that have dependencies pinned as git submodules, which was common in the pre-Atlas era.

The deps/ directory contains:

• atlas.config: Configuration file for dependency management
• Individual dependency directories
• nimble-link files for linked projects

Note that atlas.config file can be placed in the main project directory as well. In this case, the dependencies directory can modified by setting the deps field.