[Nix-dev] 32bit on 64bit Nix (chroot?)

[Luca Bruno]

I guess you can somehow. The point is: why do you need a chroot. In nix
both 32bit and 64bit can coexist.


On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Anderson Torres <
torres.anderson.85 at gmail.com> wrote:

> About this, there is some way to make a 32-bit chroot on NixOS the s-me
> way as the Archlinux tutorials (
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_bundled_32-bit_system_in_Arch64
> )?
>
> Em 27/07/2014 06:50, "Luca Bruno" <lethalman88 at gmail.com> escreveu:
> >
> > Did you try just installing skype from nix? Like with nix-env -i skype.
> It works out of the box.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Charles Strahan <
> charles.c.strahan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Tim,
> >>
> >> I wish I had more information (I've only used NixOS in server
> scenarios), but I would suggest first looking at pkgsi686Linux, which is
> the entire nix packages with `system' overridden as "i686-linux". There's
> also callPackage_i686, incase you want to declare your own package that is
> strictly 32bit. I'm always idling on #nixos, so feel free to ask some
> questions there too, and I'll see if I can offer any advice.
> >>
> >> -Charles
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Tim Hawes <tim at easyfreeunix.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Greetings,
> >>>
> >>> I am new to NixOS, and finally tried it out, going through a bare-metal
> >>> installation to a USB drive (I wanted to make sure I could get
> >>> everything working on my laptop, for the possibility of switching out
> >>> Ubuntu for NixOS). The documentation was clear and concise,
> >>> however, it is not at all clear how to install support for running 32
> >>> bit application on the 64bit OS. I did stumble on a logged conversation
> >>> on the IRC channel, where installing stdenv_32bit was mentioned. But it
> >>> was not entirely clear what that does.
> >>>
> >>> I am trying to run the dynamic binary for Skype. I will also be
> >>> installing Wine, and a licensed copy of Codeweavers CrossOver Office. I
> >>> know Skype depends on 32bit versions of Qt, and several other
> libraries,
> >>> but right now, it would be progress to just get a 32bit version of libc
> >>> installed.
> >>>
> >>> Any help in this regards will be greatly appreciated!
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!
> >>>
> >>> Tim Hawes
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