[Nix-dev] nix on mac

Patrick Wheeler patrick.john.wheeler at gmail.com
Wed Jan 16 18:48:44 CET 2013


@ I have and to use it on my mac laptop as well. Though I I use a vm of
nixos now more then I do then the mac version.

I used it for different python versions, haskell versions, at one point I
had to change some nix expressions to get gtk and the haskell bindings to
work.  I also used it to install xmonad and some networking tools as well.

Patrick


On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Sander van der Burg - EWI <
S.vanderBurg at tudelft.nl> wrote:

>  Yes,
>
> It's possible to use the Nix package manager on Mac OS X. I'm using it
> quite frequently these days at work (although I don't own any Apple devices
> myself :-) ). However, Mac support is less mature and the packages
> collection is not fully bootstrapped (meaning that it has some dependencies
> on the host system).
>
> For example, I've used the Nix package manager to compile Xcode project
> (in a hacky way).
>
> -- Sander
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* nix-dev-bounces at lists.science.uu.nl [
> nix-dev-bounces at lists.science.uu.nl] on behalf of Christopher Howard [
> cmhoward2 at alaska.edu]
> *Sent:* Monday, January 14, 2013 10:55 PM
> *To:* nix-dev at lists.science.uu.nl
> *Subject:* [Nix-dev] nix on mac
>
>  Hi. Can the Nix pm be installed to a local user account on a Mac OS X
> system? (I've done this under Linux.) I downloaded Nix and started to
> compile and install the dependencies it needs. However, it appears that I'm
> going to have to compile and install a lot of stuff, so I'm hoping to find
> out if it is realistic before continuing.
>
> I'm curious if I can use Nix on a Mac OS X machine (I have to use) at work
> to get some compilers and other *nix stuff that the admin won't install.
>
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