[Nix-dev] mxe on NixOS

[Luca Bruno]

On 27/07/2015 07:36, Andrew Kelley wrote:
> mxe (M Cross Environment) is a way to cross compile for Windows. It's
> a pretty great project. 
>
> There's one hitch when using it on NixOS. I guess it expects
> /usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4 to exist for some reason. I don't completely
> understand it and I'm still pretty new to NixOS. I was hoping to get
> some more experienced people to maybe chime in and point out what MXE
> could do to not break on NixOS.
>
> Here's the upstream
> issue: https://github.com/mxe/mxe/issues/723#issuecomment-125044881
>
> Any ideas?
You are trying to build something outside of a nix build environment.
Instead of calling make ecc. like you do on every other distro, in Nix
things are very different. You should write a .nix file describing how
the package should build and build it. It will be easier.

Also 99% of the times errors like that are not an upstream issue but
your own issue on nixos.

Best regards,
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