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Pedro Pombeiro 48c7f928cd Clean up some nix files		2019-07-05 13:40:31 +02:00
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desktop	Only bring in Android dependencies in gomobile if targetting Android	2019-07-05 13:40:31 +02:00
mobile	Upgrade Xcode requirement to 10.2.1	2019-06-13 15:03:58 +02:00
status-go	Clean up some nix files	2019-07-05 13:40:31 +02:00
README.md	add alternative nix-cache in China	2019-05-13 19:37:19 +02:00
nix.conf	add alternative nix-cache in China	2019-05-13 19:37:19 +02:00
nixpkgs-bootstrap.nix	Ensure shell.nix uses same nixpkgs as the rest of the environment	2019-06-20 09:18:24 -04:00
platform.nix	Split status-go Nix package per platform so rebuilds are faster	2019-05-06 14:40:23 +02:00
shell.sh	add NIX_KEEP to add --keep to pyre nix shell	2019-06-10 08:07:20 -04:00
utils.nix	Print a friendlier message when Xcode/iPhone SDK are not installed	2019-05-10 15:07:52 +02:00

README.md

Description

This folder contains configuration for Nix, a purely functional package manager used by the Status app for its build process.

Configuration

The main config file is nix/nix.conf and its main purpose is defining the binary caches which allow download of packages to avoid having to compile them yourself locally.

NOTE: If you are in Asia you might want to move the nix-cache-cn to be first in order of extra-substituters. Removing cache.nixos.org could also help.

Shell

In order to access an interactive Nix shell a user should run make shell.

The Nix shell is started in this repo via the nix/shell.sh script, which is a wrapper around the nix-shell command and is intended for use with our main Makefile. This allows for an implicit use of nix-shell as the default shell in the Makefile.