[Nix-dev] deploying nix-built software to non-nix linux systems

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 04/11/14 00:36, Anders Papitto wrote:

> I'm interested in using nix/nixos to build an application with its
> full set of dependencies, and then deploy it to non-nixos machines as
> a self-contained package (up to and including the system libraries),
> without root privileges. Ideally I would like to not require that any
> nix tools be available on the target system. The perfect workflow
> would be something like
> 
> # on any linux system
> $ wget https://some/path/to/my-app.tar.gz
> $ tar -xf my-app.tar.gz
> $ ./my-app/bin/my-app # run the application -> it should not try to
> access anything outside ./my-app
> 
> Is this possible? 

No, this is not possible unless you do static linking or some deep
ld-linux/patchelf magic. For instance, my-app will have references to Glibc in
the Nix store, which are not relocatable.

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