nix-cargo-integration
Library to easily and effortlessly integrate Cargo projects with Nix. (by yusdacra)
crate2nix
rebuild only changed crates in CI with crate2nix and nix (by nix-community)
| nix-cargo-integration | crate2nix | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | |
| 171 | 317 | |
| - | 1.6% | |
| 9.6 | 9.3 | |
| 3 days ago | 8 days ago | |
| Nix | Nix | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
nix-cargo-integration
Posts with mentions or reviews of nix-cargo-integration.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-08.
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Introducing Crane: Composable and Cacheable Builds with Cargo and Nix
The dream2nix-based https://github.com/yusdacra/nix-cargo-integration uses crane as one of the backend, in case anyone is looking for a more compact flake.nix setup.
crate2nix
Posts with mentions or reviews of crate2nix.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-02.
- Transitioning to Rust as a company
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How to package a Rust app using Nix
I'll use nixpkgs' buildRustPackage. There's a few other tools, my favorite being crate2nix, but we'll leave that to a future tutorial.
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Nix shell related questions (for rust)
If you want to iterate with nix instead of cargo, crate2nix and cargo2nix provides more caching and more fine control over your dependencies. I haven't used these two so you would have to decide for yourself. You may also want to try out nocargo for something more experimental.
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Introducing Crane: Composable and Cacheable Builds with Cargo and Nix
I'm yet to try it out, but from the blog post, the README and the source it appears that Crane builds all dependencies in one derivation (separately from the main crate). This means that if a dependency gets added, removed or changed, all dependencies of a crate will be rebuilt. This is in contrast with https://github.com/kolloch/crate2nix, which does build every dependency in a separate package, thus you don't need to rebuild other dependencies if you only change a small part of the tree.
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Nixery – Docker images on the fly with Nix
Yes, you will have to package it if it's not already in nixpkgs.
The good news is once you learn how, it's basically trivial with crate2nix[0], which can autogenerate nix derivations from rust crates
[0] https://github.com/kolloch/crate2nix
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Help with Nix and Rust
From my quick reading of cargo2nix's webpage yes. https://github.com/kolloch/crate2nix has a workspaces section.
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How do you install packages not in Nixpkgs?
As for your two applications, they're both written in Rust, and I like https://github.com/kolloch/crate2nix as a way to package Rust crates with Nix. BTW, wezterm is already in nixpkgs!
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Nix-ifying a Rust project
I like the way crate2nix works. I have made a flake template for it here. Sometimes it requires a couple of overrides to fix some misbehaving crates (see https://github.com/balsoft/simple-osd-daemons/blob/master/flake.nix#L29 for an example of such overrides), but otherwise it's fantastic. It doesn't require any hash nonsense, it downloads and builds all the crates separately (unlike naersk or other solutions) so you get all the benefits of Nix (reproducibility and proper caching).
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How to do a full, reproducible archive of a Rust project?
Crate2nix might help: https://github.com/kolloch/crate2nix
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nix-cargo-integration and crate2nix you can also consider the following projects:
microvm.nix - NixOS MicroVMs
naersk - Build Rust projects in Nix - no configuration, no code generation, no IFD, sandbox friendly.
fenix - Rust toolchains and rust-analyzer nightly for Nix [maintainer=@figsoda]
cargo2nix - Granular builds of Rust projects for Nix
rust-nix-template - Rust project template with Nix (Flakes) and VSCode support
namaka - Snapshot testing for Nix based on haumea [maintainer=@figsoda]
crates.io-index - Registry index for crates.io
RedNix - Hackable NixOS container
nix-templates - Nix Flake templates for various languages
nix-flake-templates
nixos - My NixOS Configurations
nix-cargo-integration vs microvm.nix
crate2nix vs naersk
nix-cargo-integration vs fenix
crate2nix vs cargo2nix
nix-cargo-integration vs rust-nix-template
crate2nix vs rust-nix-template
nix-cargo-integration vs namaka
crate2nix vs crates.io-index
nix-cargo-integration vs RedNix
crate2nix vs nix-templates
nix-cargo-integration vs nix-flake-templates
crate2nix vs nixos