Nix Docs

Nix docs are scattered across quite a few sites. Here is my list of usefull starting points.

List of Nix Docs places

• The official Nix/NixOS wiki: https://wiki.nixos.org
  • pages of this you find usually quite at the top, when you search for example “nix bootloader” with Internet Searchengines
• the Nix Pills: https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/

Shortcuts for topics i dealt with

• Nix on Windows
  • there is a matrix channel: #windows:nixos.org
  • a long discussion: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-on-windows/1113/
  • a nix-windows github org: https://github.com/nix-windows with forks for nix and nixpkgs
• Nix Cross Compiling
  • Nix Lazy Cross Compiling
• Finding Libraries and Headers
  • rel: Running cogentcore on Nix
  • nix-locate XInput2.h shoul
• Nix String Contexts: https://shealevy.com/blog/2018/08/05/understanding-nixs-string-context/

Nix missing docs

• dontFixup and dontPatchShebangs
  • https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/ca156a66b75999153d746f57a11a19222fd5cdfb/pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks/patch-shebangs.sh#L108
  • as mentioned here: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/what-is-the-patchshebangs-command-in-nix-build-expressions/12656

other good resources

• http://www.chriswarbo.net/projects/nixos/bottom_up.html
• limiting resources used by nix builds
• Run a Nix build without using the daemon
• quick nix shell with mkShell
• nix you need to eval dollar_configurePhase (actually runPhase configurePhase is the correct way to do it) and not just run configurePhase