Would be sweet to get an official build of grin and grin-wallet in the NixOS packages repository
Well aren’t you just a special little snowflake!
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I tested and wrote a review for the pr for grin-wallet flake and it’s ready to go but of course we don’t have a dev capable of merging anyways so who cares mirite?
master ← chives101:flake
opened 02:07PM - 14 Apr 23 UTC
#### This PR is a counter part of https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/pull/3743… , which adds nix/flake support to the daemon. The following description is almost identical.
# Motivation
This PR enables power users to easily and reliably build the project from source code.
# Expectation
A user with the nix package manager installed can build the project with the following command:
`nix build github:mimblewimble/grin-wallet`
and expect the resulting binaries in `./result/bin/`.
# Testing
If flake hasn't been enabled, use `nix build --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes'` in place of `nix build`.
A test run for this PR can be achieved using my forked repo with the following command:
`nix build github:chives101/grin-wallet/flake` and expect a binary at `./result/bin/grin-wallet`.
Or by entering the project folder and do `nix build` after applying the PR.
# Maintenance
Each time `cargo.lock` is updated, `cargoLock.outputHashes` needs to be
updated in `flake.nix`. It can be done by simply giving a dummy hash, and observe the error
generated from the build log.
# Dev notes
This PR is the result of a simple adaptation of the code from this blog post:
https://www.tweag.io/blog/2022-09-22-rust-nix/
