Hi, On 04/11/14 00:36, Anders Papitto wrote:
> I'm interested in using nix/nixos to build an application with its > full set of dependencies, and then deploy it to non-nixos machines as > a self-contained package (up to and including the system libraries), > without root privileges. Ideally I would like to not require that any > nix tools be available on the target system. The perfect workflow > would be something like > > # on any linux system > $ wget https://some/path/to/my-app.tar.gz > $ tar -xf my-app.tar.gz > $ ./my-app/bin/my-app # run the application -> it should not try to > access anything outside ./my-app > > Is this possible? No, this is not possible unless you do static linking or some deep ld-linux/patchelf magic. For instance, my-app will have references to Glibc in the Nix store, which are not relocatable. -- Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
