On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 10:23:08AM +0100, Eelco Dolstra wrote: > 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.
If it's only about dynamic linking, you can put all into a directory, and go with a sh script that sets the proper LD_LIBRARY_PATH and calls the proper dynamic loader to load the wanted ELF. LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd` ./ld-linux.so.3 ./myprogram It may work. :) _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
