[Nix-dev] Looking for development version of zlib

[Amy de Buitléir]

Christian Theune <ct <at> flyingcircus.io> writes:
> The code I gave is orthogonal to what Eelco pointed out.

OK, thanks. I took your code out of /etc/nixos/configuration.nix, and now
I'm using only Eelco's solution. But I'm still getting the same error. Maybe
I put the "buildInputs" thing in the wrong place?

[amy at wombat9000:~/creatur]$ nix-shell
error: anonymous function at
"/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/development
/haskell-modules/generic-builder.nix":5:1
called with unexpected argument ‘buildInputs’, at
"/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/development
/haskell-modules/configuration-ghc-7.10.x.nix":51:23

[amy at wombat9000:~/creatur]$ cat shell.nix
with (import <nixpkgs> {}).pkgs;
let pkg = haskellngPackages.callPackage
            ({ mkDerivation, array, base, binary, bytestring, cereal, cond
             , directory, filepath, gray-extended, hdaemonize, hsyslog, HUnit
             , MonadRandom, mtl, old-locale, process, QuickCheck, random, split
             , stdenv, temporary, test-framework, test-framework-hunit
             , test-framework-quickcheck2, time, transformers, unix, zlib
             }:
             mkDerivation {
               pname = "creatur";
               version = "5.9.6";
               src = ./.;
               buildInputs = [
                 zlib
               ];
               buildDepends = [
                 array base bytestring cereal cond directory filepath
gray-extended
                 hdaemonize hsyslog MonadRandom mtl old-locale process
random split
                 time transformers unix zlib
               ];
               testDepends = [
                 array base binary cereal directory filepath hsyslog HUnit
                 MonadRandom mtl QuickCheck temporary test-framework
                 test-framework-hunit test-framework-quickcheck2
               ];
               homepage = "https://github.com/mhwombat/creatur";
               description = "Framework for artificial life experiments";
               license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
             }) {};
in
  pkg.env