[Nix-dev] nix on mac

[Sander van der Burg - EWI]

Yes,

It's possible to use the Nix package manager on Mac OS X. I'm using it quite frequently these days at work (although I don't own any Apple devices myself :-) ). However, Mac support is less mature and the packages collection is not fully bootstrapped (meaning that it has some dependencies on the host system).

For example, I've used the Nix package manager to compile Xcode project (in a hacky way).

-- Sander

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Subject: [Nix-dev] nix on mac

Hi. Can the Nix pm be installed to a local user account on a Mac OS X system? (I've done this under Linux.) I downloaded Nix and started to compile and install the dependencies it needs. However, it appears that I'm going to have to compile and install a lot of stuff, so I'm hoping to find out if it is realistic before continuing.

I'm curious if I can use Nix on a Mac OS X machine (I have to use) at work to get some compilers and other *nix stuff that the admin won't install.
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