Nix: Add NetBSD/FreeBSD Support

Created on 19 Dec 2019  路  6Comments  路  Source: NixOS/nix

Howdy! I'd like to request nix support for NetBSD and/or FreeBSD. There's a wip port but it fails to compile on NetBSD

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OpenBSD support would also be awesome and they're pretty similar to each other.

picture pooltoymae on 21 Dec 2019
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Do you know if Rust compiles on NetBSD already? It's a dependency of the latest Nix.

zimbatm picture zimbatm on 19 Dec 2019

Yep!

pooltoymae picture pooltoymae on 19 Dec 2019

We have a port in wip already going but the build fails:

  LD     src/libutil/libnixutil.so
/usr/pkg/lib: file not recognized: file format not recognized
gmake: *** [mk/lib.mk:104: src/libutil/libnixutil.so] Error 1
gmake: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
pooltoymae picture pooltoymae on 20 Dec 2019

OpenBSD support would also be awesome and they're pretty similar to each other.

pooltoymae picture pooltoymae on 21 Dec 2019
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There are probably a lot of linux-only assumptions in the code base that need to be fixed. Hopefully another BSD developer will step in.

zimbatm picture zimbatm on 21 Dec 2019

@l4nn1312, you might be interested in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/81459 and https://github.com/0mp/freebsd-ports-nix as well.

0mp picture 0mp on 7 Mar 2020
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