adingbatponder, 2 months ago

@0x17 I am desperate too. I just need ONE example of how to package stuff... but have not found one single one.

grindhold, 2 months ago

@adingbatponder @0x17 my path getting into it was:

1. think of a package that you know is technologically similar to what you want to package
2. search in https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs for that package. entry point is /pkgs/top-level/all.nix, from there you get the path to your desired package
3. read the default.nix of that package
4. copy that one and start adapting it to build your source
5. build the package by being in your nixpkgs checkout and issuing $ nix-env -f . -iA $yourpackagename

fleaz, 2 months ago

@grindhold @adingbatponder @0x17 That's the way 👌

Find something similar, copy/paste the file and change the name, version and the path to the git repo. That's often already a big part of packaging something new :D

Then run build, and iterate on the error messages/missing dependencies