Awesome! I will need this very soon, good timing :) On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 11:30 AM, Moritz Ulrich <mor...@tarn-vedra.de> wrote:
> > Hey Matthew, > > This sounds great! I'll give it a try :-) > > One question: Will it create a persistent /nix directory on the machine > the generated binary is running? > > Cheers > Moritz > > Matthew Bauer <mjbaue...@gmail.com> writes: > > > GitHub page: https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle > > > > I just wanted to post about a little project I've been working on. I'm > > calling it "nix-bundle". > > > > Basically, what it does is: take a Nix closure, compress it into a > > tarball, and turn that tarball into an executable using "Arx". The > > final result looks like a plain shell script, but actually has a > > tarball closure appended to it. When you run that script, Arx will > > execute "nix-user-chroot" (which is included in the closure) which > > will setup a /nix/ directory, then execute a target executable. All of > > this should work "out of the box" for any Nix derivation folder with a > > valid executable. > > > > For example, to generate a "hello" bundle: > > > > ./nix-bundle.sh hello /bin/hello > > > > "hello" specifies pkgs.hello and /bin/hello specifies the file > > ${pkgs.helloi}/bin/hello to be executed. The output file will just be > > called "hello". > >p > > The result is a "bundle" that can run without Nix being installed! No > > external dependencies are needed because they are all contained within > > the Nix closure. > > > > There are two main drawbacks: slow startup and large file size. > > Extracting the tarball takes time and this adds on to startup times. > > Also, because everything is included from the Nix closure, complicated > > apps tend to be much larger because of the dependency tree. > > > > I've been experimenting with using AppImage as a format to package > > them in, but it is not currently ready yet. > > _______________________________________________ > > nix-dev mailing list > > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > >
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