status-react/nix
Ibrahem 125d3239de
nix: build derivation from sources if cache fails
This is a workaround for a well known issue of Nix failing to download
bigger packages from Nix cache due to errors like this:
```
HTTP error 200 (curl error: Transferred a partial file)
```
or
```
HTTP error 200 (curl error: Stream error in the HTTP/2 framing layer)
```
From docs: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-fallback

>If set to true, Nix will fall back to building from source if a binary
>substitute fails. This is equivalent to the --fallback flag. The default is false.

Realted: https://github.com/status-im/infra-ci/issues/17

Signed-off-by: Jakub Sokołowski <jakub@status.im>
2023-06-25 23:34:59 +02:00
..
deps android: fix Gradle deps, drop Flipper, upgrade Fresco 2023-06-23 12:02:18 +02:00
lib nix: cleanup of unused variables 2022-05-31 12:03:20 +02:00
mobile upgrade `react-native` from 0.67.5 to 0.69.10 (#16016) 2023-06-14 07:17:41 +05:30
pkgs nix: upgrade nixpkgs to latest nixos-22.11 2023-06-20 12:53:06 +02:00
scripts nix: fix cache usage by modifying global config 2023-06-23 18:02:38 +02:00
status-go Upgrade `react-native` from 0.63.3 to 0.67.5 (#15486) 2023-04-12 15:25:19 +05:30
tools nix: cleanup of unused variables 2022-05-31 12:03:20 +02:00
DETAILS.md nix: use jsbundle derivation for iOS as well 2023-05-22 10:31:09 +02:00
KNOWN_ISSUES.md nix: fix applying nix.conf by using correct env var 2023-06-20 13:55:07 +02:00
README.md nix: build unsigned Android APK, sign separately 2022-05-21 11:10:11 +02:00
config.nix ci: use different IPFS gateway for release builds 2022-08-26 20:02:27 +02:00
default.nix Cleanup 2020-01-10 19:59:54 +01:00
nix.conf nix: build derivation from sources if cache fails 2023-06-25 23:34:59 +02:00
overlay.nix nix: upgrade nixpkgs to latest nixos-22.11 2023-06-20 12:53:06 +02:00
pkgs.nix nix: use builtins to not depend on channels 2023-06-21 15:36:08 +02:00
shell.nix nix: add missing Apple SDKs to fix make test on macOS 2023-06-24 10:56:21 +02:00
shells.nix nix: upgrade nixpkgs to latest nixos-22.11 2023-06-20 12:53:06 +02:00
targets.nix drop all desktop related files and references 2020-07-08 10:26:51 +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.

Build arguments

We leverage the config argument of standard nixpkgs for our own parameterization of the builds (e.g. to pass a build number or build type).

Here is a sample structure of the config attribute set:

{
  status-im = {
    build-type = "pr";     # Build type (influences which .env file gets used for feature flags)
    build-number = 9999;   # Used for versionCode and CFBundleVersion in Android and iOS respectively
    android = {
      gradle-opts = "";    # Gradle options passed for Android builds
      abi-split = false;   # If APKs should be split based on architectures
      abi-include = "x86"; # Android architectures to build for
    };
    status-go = {
      src-override = "$HOME/my/source/status-go"; # local source override
    };
  };
}

You can see the defaults in nix/config.nix.

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/scripts/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.

Normally the shell starts without any specific target platform, if you want to change that you should export the TARGET env variable with appropriate value:

make shell TARGET=android

This way your shell and all other nix commands should run in a setup that is tailored towards Android development.

For valid values you can check the nix/shells.nix file.

⚠️ WARNING: To have Nix pick up all changes a new nix-shell needs to be spawned.

Using a local status-go repository

If you need to use a locally checked-out status-go repository, you can achieve that by defining the STATUS_GO_SRC_OVERRIDE environment variable:

export STATUS_GO_SRC_OVERRIDE=$GOPATH/src/github.com/status-im/status-go
make release-android

Resources

You can learn more about Nix by watching these presentations:

And you can read nix/DETAILS.md for more information.

Known Issues

See KNOWN_ISSUES.md.