Bambu Studio - compilation or package request

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I’m looking to get Bambu Studio working on my NixOS (GNOME) desktop. The compilation instructions are asking for packages that I can’t seem to locate on search.nixos.org. I noticed there was a package request for it that was opened, marked completed, and closed all on the same day so I’m not sure what happened there.

I’m a bit of a noob when it comes to packaging things up for NixOS but I’d wager it probably would require getting it to compile in the first place. Am I the only Bambu Labs 3D printer owner/user? Or just the only oddball that ditched Debian for NixOS without knowing how to get it working on here?

Thanks to anyone in advance for any help.

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Hi, NixOS unstable has bambu-studio packaged for a while. It was broken for a few weeks, but currently it is back working again. If you are on NixOS unstable you can use pkgs.bambu-studio (just tested it).

Due to bambu-studio being a large big C++ codebase with plenty of dependencies, that all have to work in harmony to some extend with the current versions/changes in the nixpkgs repositories - which in particular can be a challenge with mesa and 3D rendering components.

I’ll try to submit a PR updating the nixpkgs bambu-studio package once the official 1.9 release is ready. I think with the soon approaching 24.05 release we’ll finally have a stable BambuStudio package built.

That being said, I just stumbled upon @szymonf repository on GitHub that uses pkgs.appimageTools.wrapType2 to bundle the pre-built AppImages. I’ve been somewhat successfully using the latest orca-slicer built there as well.

Here is my current config with the latest orca-slicer release preview, which also works with my BambuLab printer and the network plugin (webcam is a bit flaky though).

  orca-slicer-appimage = pkgs.appimageTools.wrapType2 rec {
    name = "OrcaSlicer";
    pname = "orcaslicer";
    version = "2.0.0-rc";
    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
      url =
        "https://github.com/SoftFever/OrcaSlicer/releases/download/v${version}/OrcaSlicer_Linux_V${version}.AppImage";
      sha256 = "sha256-tc4gKm+Q0YofH6khXFg2H1gS8iytwK3O3Wbwu9ecpug=";
    };
    extraPkgs = pkgs: with pkgs; [ webkitgtk gst_all_1.gst-plugins-good gst_all_1.gst-plugins-bad gst_all_1.gst-plugins-base ];
  };

I hope that helps, good luck getting your print working soon :slight_smile:.

Update: Thanks to some other work as well I just got the latest BambuStudio 1.9 RC AppImage working for me.

  bambu-studio-appimage = pkgs.appimageTools.wrapType2 rec {
    name = "BambuStudio";
    pname = "bambustudio";
    version = "01.09.00.60";
    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
      url = "https://github.com/bambulab/BambuStudio/releases/download/v${version}/Bambu_Studio_linux_ubuntu_${version}.AppImage";
      sha256 = "sha256-qxV6pn1OVU/IGS2Lv954gm9ud1MtBr8Khdy2tJvkwj8=";
    };
    profile = ''
      export SSL_CERT_FILE="${pkgs.cacert}/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt"
      export GIO_MODULE_DIR="${pkgs.glib-networking}/lib/gio/modules/"
    '';
    extraPkgs = pkgs: with pkgs; [
      cacert
      curl
      glib
      glib-networking
      gst_all_1.gst-plugins-bad
      gst_all_1.gst-plugins-base
      gst_all_1.gst-plugins-good
      webkitgtk
    ];
  };
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Ahh I switched over to unstable and it compiled just find but got this (and blank windows) when running it:

(bambu-studio:4443): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 19:46:12.322: gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'width >= -1' failed
Failed to get GBM device
No such file or directory

(bambu-studio:4443): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 19:46:13.778: gtk_cell_layout_get_cells: assertion 'GTK_IS_CELL_LAYOUT (cell_layout)' failed

(bambu-studio:4443): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 19:46:13.778: gtk_cell_layout_get_cells: assertion 'GTK_IS_CELL_LAYOUT (cell_layout)' failed

(bambu-studio:4443): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 19:46:13.781: gtk_cell_layout_get_cells: assertion 'GTK_IS_CELL_LAYOUT (cell_layout)' failed

(bambu-studio:4443): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 19:46:13.782: gtk_cell_layout_get_cells: assertion 'GTK_IS_CELL_LAYOUT (cell_layout)' failed

(bambu-studio:4443): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 19:46:13.783: gtk_cell_layout_get_cells: assertion 'GTK_IS_CELL_LAYOUT (cell_layout)' failed

(bambu-studio:4443): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 19:46:13.784: gtk_cell_layout_get_cells: assertion 'GTK_IS_CELL_LAYOUT (cell_layout)' failed

(bambu-studio:4443): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 19:46:13.785: gtk_cell_layout_get_cells: assertion 'GTK_IS_CELL_LAYOUT (cell_layout)' failed

** (bambu-studio:4443): CRITICAL **: 19:46:13.794: Cannot register URI scheme wxfs more than once

** (bambu-studio:4443): CRITICAL **: 19:46:13.794: Cannot register URI scheme memory more than once
Failed to get GBM device

I’m still learning the home-manager stuff so I’ll keep digging and see if I can get that AppImage to work. Thanks for your help!

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That sounds like some of mesa issues, try rebooting your host system. I’m not familiar with home manager, but it’s important that the window-manager environment is the same as the BambuStudio version (so perhaps installing it as a system package and not homemanager should work).

Good luck either way. I forgot to mention with the app image snippet the BambuStudio executable will be called BambuStudio and won’t contain a desktop entry.