nix-alien
nix-autobahn
| nix-alien | nix-autobahn | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 4 | |
| 417 | 230 | |
| - | - | |
| 8.3 | 0.0 | |
| 25 days ago | about 2 years ago | |
| Python | Shell | |
| MIT License | - |
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nix-alien
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Nix-Powered Development with OCaml
copy the extracted files over to the nix output dir, and patch-elf all the binaries to link to the nix-version of the dynamic lib.
This sounds more difficult than it is, the result will be a copied over binary file that has its “libc.so” and other dynamic libs replaced in the ELF-header with “/nix/store/hdjdewuieu737-libc/libc.so”. I recommend looking up a package in nixpkgs which has a similar install story, that’s the easiest way to write a new package.
In case you only want to run it locally https://github.com/thiagokokada/nix-alien and similar programs work fine with the binary.
- NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon” Released
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Gentoo Users: What are your thoughts on NixOS? Have you used it before? How do you think it compares to Gentoo?
You might be interested in tools like nix-alien which help, though to some extent it's always going to be an annoyance.
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Arch + NixOS at once?
There's also nix-alien to run random binaries and nixos-fhs-compat to FHS your OS (might need some tweaking).
nix-autobahn
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NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon” Released
Not true: there are many tools that allows directly running any binary, like nix-autobahn [1].
[1]: https://github.com/Lassulus/nix-autobahn
- NixOS' minimal ISO is now 100% reproducible!
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Need help on installing maple on nixos
Have a look at nix-autobahn and nix-ld.
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Why isn't NixOS more popular
I haven't tried it yet, but nix-ld and/or nix-autobahn might be (the start of) what you're looking for?
What are some alternatives?
distrobox - Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
nixos-hardware - A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.
nixos-fhs-compat - LSB&FHS compatibility for NixOS. Intended for containers and VMs.
neovim-nightly-overlay - [maintainer=@Kranzes]
mach-nix - Create highly reproducible python environments
nix-ld - Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS
vulnix - Vulnerability (CVE) scanner for Nix/NixOS.
aconfmgr - A configuration manager for Arch Linux
nixops - NixOps is a tool for deploying to NixOS machines in a network or cloud.
silverblue-nix
docker-files
nixscript