[Nix-dev] Nix/Nixpkgs on Cygwin

[Domen Kožar]

Did you run into https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/19?


On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Sander van der Burg - EWI <
S.vanderBurg at tudelft.nl> wrote:

>  Hello Nixers,
>
> Recently I had to do couple of development tasks on *cough cough* MS
> Windows.
>
> Unfortunately, Nix did not seem to work on it anymore, so I have decided
> revive the Cygwin support. I had to make a few subtle modifications to the
> Nix package manager, such as including cstdlib at several places, because a
> few functions were undeclared according to the compiler.
>
> Moreover, the -std=c++0x gcc parameter caused another file not to compile
> because fdopen() could not be found (because it's not ANSI/ISO C). I solved
> it changing the gcc parameter to -std=gnu++0x
>
> Currently, these changes live in my personal Nix fork:
>
>
> https://github.com/svanderburg/nix/commit/7f685b6550d7393874fc6ef26b9a03a8ace2f90e
>
> Moreover, I had to fix a couple of things in Nixpkgs. These changes also
> live in my personal fork of Nixpkgs:
>
>
> https://github.com/svanderburg/nixpkgs/commit/9ec52d632302ad6267a83b563de9927f886e1817
>
> Besides a couple of essential cygwin fixes, I also added support for
> x86_64-cygwin, which also seems to exist these days.
>
> To make the Nix package manager work on Cygwin, I had to install the
> following Perl packages through CPAN (besides having all the relevant
> development packages installed):
>
> perl -MCPAN -e 'install DBD::SQLite'
> perl -MCPAN -e 'install WWW::Curl'
>
> I compiled and installed Nix by running the following command-line
> instructions:
>
> ./configure --disable-perl-bindings
> make BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=0
> make BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=0 install
>
> I disabled building shared libs, as they can't really be properly used
> with Nix on Cygwin anyway, so there is no need to investigate how to enable
> them.
>
> I don't know if anyone is in favour of  getting these changes merged
> upstream? Our current policy is that "Cygwin is not officially supported".
> But if that doesn't matter, I can file a pull request so that anyone can
> benefit from these changes.
>
> Moreover, any feedback is welcome!
>
> Regards,
>
> Sander van der Burg
>
>
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