TOtodsacerdoti·Nov 22, 2021Submission
Nix-template: Make creating nix expressions easy
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nix-template
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nix-template
Make creating nix expressions easy
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Make creating nix expressions easy
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2 sourcesIt sounds like https://github.com/jonringer/nix-template might be helpful to you. You can generate a nix expression to build an autotools package, and you can even pull the package info straight from a public repo. In the case of nix, most C-type things fall under stdenv, so that is the template you would want to use.
I barely write any C, but I've gotten very good at building C/C++ applications over the past couple of weeks by fixing broken derivations ahead of a release.
In How to Learn Nix