@ I have and to use it on my mac laptop as well. Though I I use a vm of nixos now more then I do then the mac version.
I used it for different python versions, haskell versions, at one point I had to change some nix expressions to get gtk and the haskell bindings to work. I also used it to install xmonad and some networking tools as well. Patrick On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Sander van der Burg - EWI < [email protected]> wrote: > Yes, > > It's possible to use the Nix package manager on Mac OS X. I'm using it > quite frequently these days at work (although I don't own any Apple devices > myself :-) ). However, Mac support is less mature and the packages > collection is not fully bootstrapped (meaning that it has some dependencies > on the host system). > > For example, I've used the Nix package manager to compile Xcode project > (in a hacky way). > > -- Sander > > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] [ > [email protected]] on behalf of Christopher Howard [ > [email protected]] > *Sent:* Monday, January 14, 2013 10:55 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [Nix-dev] nix on mac > > Hi. Can the Nix pm be installed to a local user account on a Mac OS X > system? (I've done this under Linux.) I downloaded Nix and started to > compile and install the dependencies it needs. However, it appears that I'm > going to have to compile and install a lot of stuff, so I'm hoping to find > out if it is realistic before continuing. > > I'm curious if I can use Nix on a Mac OS X machine (I have to use) at work > to get some compilers and other *nix stuff that the admin won't install. > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > > -- Patrick Wheeler [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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