Zig-overlay#master as nix pkg

cyrilguiz · January 14, 2024, 11:11am

Recently on this post I inquired about using the latest Zig) master on nixos. I recently migrated to it and was confused on how to install Zig on nixos. I found the solution to the question which I asked initially but now I want to know if there is a way to use the flake as a package in nix. I want to know because I don’t like the fact that I have to get into nix-shell to run my zig program. At the time of writing the Zig master is 0.12.0-dev.2158+4f2009de1 and my nixos version is 24.05. Also I want the same information for zls.

Cloudef · January 14, 2024, 11:23am

I suggest doing your whole nixos install as a flake, then it’s simple Migrating a NixOS Install to Flakes ~ colinramsay.co.uk

I don’t personally put zig into my system packages, but I do pass latest zig to zls here

github.com

Cloudef/nixos-flake/blob/master/modules/neovim.nix#L7


      
          { config, lib, pkgs, inputs, users, ... }:
          with lib;
          {
            # XXX: mode does not exist on darwin
            # environment.etc."xdg/zls.json".mode = "0444";
            environment.etc."xdg/zls.json".text = ''
              {
                "warn_style": true,
                "highlight_global_var_declarations": true,
                "include_at_in_builtins": true,
                "enable_autofix": true
              }
              '';
          
            environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
              ripgrep
            ];

Alternatively you can use flake-compat
https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes#Using_flakes_with_stable_Nix