[Nix-dev] Missing library: zlib

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 06/03/14 18:44, Thomas Bereknyei wrote:

> I routinely find myself in a situation where some build tool or installation of
> software (gcc, pip, a runtime) not via a nix expression) will fail due to not
> having zlib available/in scope. What would be a simple way to prevent this
> annoyance?

In Nix 1.7, you can do:

  $ nix-shell -p zlib

to start a shell in which zlib is in scope (by setting various environment
variables). So you should then be able to run "make" or whatever.

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Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/