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* Only build perl subproject on Linux * Fix various Windows regressions * Don't put the emulator hook in test builds We run the tests in a separate derivation. Only need it for the dev shell. * Fix native dev shells * Fix cross dev shells we don't know how to emulate Co-authored-by: PoweredByPie <poweredbypie@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Joachim Schiele <js@lastlog.de> Co-authored-by: John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems> |
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Nix
Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.
Installation and first steps
Visit nix.dev for installation instructions and beginner tutorials.
Full reference documentation can be found in the Nix manual.
Building and developing
See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to set up a development environment and build Nix from source.
Contributing
Check the contributing guide if you want to get involved with developing Nix.
Additional resources
Nix was created by Eelco Dolstra and developed as the subject of his PhD thesis The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model, published 2006. Today, a world-wide developer community contributes to Nix and the ecosystem that has grown around it.
- The Nix, Nixpkgs, NixOS Community on nixos.org
- Official documentation on nix.dev
- Nixpkgs is the largest, most up-to-date free software repository in the world
- NixOS is a Linux distribution that can be configured fully declaratively
- Discourse
- Matrix
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.