This is a minimal repository to show a Nix expression that creates a PDF using Pandoc.
If you have Nix, you can clone this repository (cd into it) and run
nix-build. You'll have more output than the code block below the first time
you run the command, since Nix will have to download all the necessary
dependencies.
$ nix-build
this derivation will be built:
/nix/store/3bw34fhj54q7jnbsk14hmqklff244dyc-hello.drv
building '/nix/store/3bw34fhj54q7jnbsk14hmqklff244dyc-hello.drv'...
/nix/store/dgllxyjaq42adp5rjzawjwbfy0icl1iv-hello
The last line above shows where the build artifact is located. In addition you
should have a symlink called result in the current directory; it points to
the same location.
$ ls -la
total 44
drwxr-xr-x 4 thu users 4096 Aug 22 23:58 .
drwxrwxr-x 410 thu users 20480 Aug 22 23:11 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 thu users 1891 Aug 22 23:50 default.nix
drwxr-xr-x 8 thu users 4096 Aug 22 23:59 .git
-rw-r--r-- 1 thu users 36 Aug 22 23:27 hello.md
drwxr-xr-x 2 thu users 4096 Aug 22 23:11 nix
-rw-r--r-- 1 thu users 1407 Aug 22 23:58 README.md
lrwxrwxrwx 1 thu users 49 Aug 22 23:50 result -> /nix/store/dgllxyjaq42adp5rjzawjwbfy0icl1iv-hello
There, you should have our example PDF, that you can then open:
$ ls result/
hello.pdf
$ mupdf result/hello.pd