Building gtk hello-world

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I’m trying to build a simple gtk2 application with nix. I have as my shell.nix the following:

with import <nixpkgs> { };
mkShell {
  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
  buildInputs = [ gtk2 glib gtk2-x11 ccls ];
}

and the helloworld.c is as follows:

#include <gtk/gtk.h>

int main (int argc, char *argv[]) {
  GtkWidget *window;
  gtk_init (&argc, &argv);
  window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
  gtk_window_set_title (GTK_WINDOW (window), "Hello World");
  gtk_widget_show (window);
  gtk_main ();
  return 0;
}

To compile this I’m doing gcc $(pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0) helloworld.c. What’s the more nix-y way to build this? Ideally it’s something that would allow the language server ccls to work in my editor as well.

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Just use a normal build system, like Meson or Make. For editor integration, look using your shell.nix with direnv.

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