Post #1846768
2026-04-30 18:58 UTC
@jonmsterling Yeah, I'm not surprised you had a poor experience then. Nix on mac behaves weirdly and I've ran into similar issues myself.
imo the best cross-platform approach to nix is to set up a unix Dockerfile with nix as the package manager, and build the project inside the Dockerfile. This has been my approach when submitting my nix-packaged research for artifact evaluation. If you're curious, one such Dockerfile is available here: https://gist.github.com/JakeGinesin/6d45698ad8f41f6134b0e2d7e8824cbf
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@jonmsterling@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-30 19:01
@JakeGinesin Gotcha, thanks. But if I have to use Docker, why wouldn’t I just provision a docker image directly instead of fucking around with nesting Nix inside Docker?