[Nix-dev] Help creating a custom app with Nix package manager

[Kirill Elagin]

To one of the versions from
https://github.com/mason-larobina/luakit/releases (I picked 2012.09.13).
But that's not related to your issue at all, of course.


--
Кирилл Елагин


On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 8:50 PM, Asus Ceaser <theprepboys at gmail.com> wrote:

> What did you edit that line to?
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Kirill Elagin <kirelagin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hm, I can't reproduce that.
>> Your expression works fine for me (I only had to fix `version`).
>>
>>
>> --
>> Кирилл Елагин
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Asus Ceaser <theprepboys at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I did a fresh install and started following the Nixpkgs manual to
>>> create a custom package.  I want to use the web browser luakit.
>>>
>>> So I cloned the git repository and changed directory into it.
>>>
>>> I then created the directory luakit under
>>> /pkgs/applications/network/browsers/
>>>
>>> I created a default.nix which looks like this:
>>>
>>>  { stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, libsoup, webkit, gtk, glib_networking,
>>> gsettings_desktop_schemas, makeWrapper  }:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>    stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
>>>
>>>      name = "luakit-${version}";
>>>
>>>      version = "2012";
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      src = fetchurl {
>>>
>>>        url = "
>>> https://github.com/mason-larobina/luakit/archive/${version}.tar.gz";
>>>
>>>        sha256 = "...";
>>>
>>>      };
>>>
>>>
>>>      buildInputs = [ makeWrapper gtk libsoup pkgconfig webkit ];
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      makeFlags = [ "PREFIX=$(out)" ];
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      postInstall = ''
>>>
>>>        wrapProgram "$out/bin/luakit" \
>>>
>>>          --prefix GIO_EXTRA_MODULES :
>>> "${glib_networking}/lib/gio/modules" \
>>>
>>>          --prefix XDG_DATA_DIRS : "${gsettings_desktop_schemas}/share"
>>>
>>>      '';
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      meta = {
>>>
>>>        description = "A Vim-like browser";
>>>
>>>        longDescription = ''
>>>
>>>          A fast and lightweight vim like web browser based on the webkit
>>> web
>>>          browser engine and the lua toolkit. luakit is keyboard driven
>>> and can be extended through the use of lua code.
>>>
>>>       '';
>>>
>>>       homepage = "http://www.luakit.org";
>>>
>>>       license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3;
>>>
>>>       maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.rickynils ];
>>>
>>>       platforms = with stdenv.lib.platforms; linux;
>>>
>>>     };
>>>
>>>   }
>>>
>>> I then edited pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix and it looks like this:
>>>
>>>
>>>  luakit = callPackage ../applications/networking/browsers/luakit {
>>>      inherit (gnome) libsoup;
>>>      webkit = webkit_gtk2;
>>>  };
>>>
>>>
>>> I then ran the command nix-build -A luakit
>>>
>>> and I get the error error: cannot auto-call a function that has an
>>> argument without a default value (`stdenv')
>>>
>>>
>>> I am not new to Linux but new to this type of package development.  I
>>> did read the other emails and posts made by others who have had this
>>> same problem as me, but I when I tried to do as they do I still got
>>> the message.  If someone could help a noob I would appreciate it.
>>>
>>> ~Thank you
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> nix-dev mailing list
>>> nix-dev at lists.science.uu.nl
>>> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
>>>
>>
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/attachments/20140301/24315666/attachment.html