[Nix-dev] Extra dependencies for Steam games?

[Freddy Rietdijk]

If you would move certain libraries out because of whatever reason, then I
think we need to introduce a set that defines per game the extra libraries
and introduce something like a steam.withGameLibs.

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Nikolay Amiantov <ab at fmap.me> wrote:

> commonTargetPkgs is not the right place for this: it's for binaries (not
> libraries) that are needed both for steam-env and steam. Difference
> between targetPkgs (binaries) and multiPkgs (libraries) is that latter
> are installed for both architectures on 64-bit systems; you'd need that
> for a Steam game most likely as a lot of them are compiled for i686.
>
> On 12/09/2016 01:04 PM, Moritz Ulrich wrote:
> >
> > I think the easiest / most useful solution is adding the libraries to
> > `commonTargetPkgs` in `pkgs/games/steam/chrootenv.nix`. You can do this
> > locally by cloning `nixpkgs.git`, modify the file, then running `nix-env
> > -f . -iA steam` inside the `nixpkgs` directory to install steam in your
> > user-env (which takes priority over `environment.systemPackages`).
> >
> > Feel free to open a Pull Request (or an issue describing the missing
> > libraries) for changes like this. Right now a "fat" steam chrootenv
> > seems like the most useful solution to me.
> >
> > Mike Cooper <mythmon at elem.us> writes:
> >
> >> The Steam game SHENZHEN I/O fials to start with errors about missing
> >> libraries. One solution is to symlink the missing libraries into the
> >> directory of the game, but that doesn't seem like a very good idea.
> >>
> >> I tried to add an override for steam to add extra dependencies, but I
> was
> >> able to make any headway on this. Does anyone have a good way of getting
> >> Steam games that need extra libraries to work?
> >>
> >> -Mythmon
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