[Nix-dev] Where are the builtins function declarations?

Layus layus.on at gmail.com
Sun Jun 19 15:11:07 CEST 2016


Hi Erik,

The builtins are builtins from nix, and are found in the nix tool, not 
in nixpkgs.

For listToAttrs, you will fins them in 
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/src/libexpr/primops.cc#L1089

Regards,

-- Layus.

On 19/06/16 15:07, 4levels wrote:
> Hi Nix-devs,
>
> I'm often looking up the usage of functions in the various files I can 
> find here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/
> (eg. attsets.nix, strings.nix, lists.nix, ..)
>
> But I can't seem to find the file where the builtin functions are 
> defined (eg. listToAttrs), searching in the github repo doesn't show 
> me the file(s) either..
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Erik
>
>
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