Nix flake for Zig

Description

In this repository lives a Nix flake packaging the Zig compiler binaries using the data provided by the Zig team.

Provided utilities

Nightly versions updated daily (.master.<date>), starting from version 0.8.0-dev.1140+9270aae07 dated 2021-02-13, and latest master (.master.latest) for the sake of convenience.
Release versions.

Usage

Without flake support?

Import in your project as you would normally (pkgs.fetchFromGitHub or builtins.fetchgit), with (hopefully) no tinkering needed! The default.nix exposes a pkgs argument for possible pinning of the Nixpkgs repository, and a system argument which defaults to builtins.currentSystem.

To make it visible in your system configuration:

# It is a good idea to use an exact commit in place of 'main' here.
let zigf = fetchTarball "https://github.com/arqv/zig-overlay/archive/main.tar.gz" in
  # If you're using home-manager
  home.packages = [ zigf.master.latest ]; # or any available version
  # If you're using NixOS
  users.user.<username>.packages = [ zigf.master.latest ]; # or any available version
# ...the rest of your configuration

With flake support?

In your flake.nix file:

{
  inputs.zig.url = "github:arqv/zig-overlay";
  outputs = { self, zig, ... }: {
    ...
  };
}

In a shell:

# run the latest version (0.7.1)
$ nix run 'github:arqv/zig-overlay'
# open a shell with master version dated 2021-02-13 (oldest version available)
$ nix shell 'github:arqv/zig-overlay#master."2021-02-13"'
# open a shell with latest master version
$ nix shell 'github:arqv/zig-overlay#master.latest'

For contributors

The update script manages updating the information in sources.json. The only dependency is Nix, and it’s written internally in Ruby.