Installing `texmath` binary as dependency in Nix project
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dpk commented
I have a non-Haskell project which depends on the texmath
binary. I’m trying to set this up as a dependency in Nix and am not getting very far.
nixpkgs.haskellPackages.texmath
does not include the binary (also not the server binary). I tried adding the texmath
repo as a submodule and adding its default.nix
as a build input, but that gave this error when I tried to start the shell:
bash: pop_var_context: head of shell_variables not a function context
bash: pop_var_context: head of shell_variables not a function context
and I’m not sure how I’d go about adapting that to also install the binary anyway.
jgm commented
I can't help with nix, but to get the executable you need to set the executable
flag when compiling, e.g. -fexecutable
when using cabal.
dpk commented
This did it:
let
pkgs = import <nixpkgs> {};
texmath = pkgs.haskellPackages.texmath;
texmath-executable = pkgs.haskell.lib.addBuildDepends (pkgs.haskell.lib.enableCabalFlag texmath "executable") [ pkgs.haskellPackages.network-uri ];
in
pkgs.mkShell {
buildInputs = [
texmath-executable
];
}