Creating Jetbrains Idea Wrapper Overlay

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1

I am trying to create an overlay for Intellij Idea that wraps the binary with some environment variables.
I tried this:

      (self: super: {
      jetbrains = super.jetbrains // {
        idea-community = pkgs.symlinkJoin {
          name = "idea-community";
          paths = [ super.jetbrains.idea-community ];
          buildInputs = [ pkgs.makeWrapper ];
          postBuild = ''
            wrapProgram $out/bin/idea-community --set GDK_SCALE 2 --set XCURSOR_SIZE 64
          '';
        };
      };
    })

However, paths = [ super.jetbrains.idea-community ]; gives an infinite recursion error. I’m not sure how to refer to the original path here. Any help is greatly appreciated!

2

Don’t use super since super includes your overlay, use self instead.

      (self: super: {
      jetbrains = self.jetbrains // {
        idea-community = pkgs.symlinkJoin {
          name = "idea-community";
          paths = [ self.jetbrains.idea-community ];
          buildInputs = [ pkgs.makeWrapper ];
          postBuild = ''
            wrapProgram $out/bin/idea-community --set GDK_SCALE 2 --set XCURSOR_SIZE 64
          '';
        };
      };
    })
3

I gave this code a try, and unfortunately still ran into a similar infinite recursion error:

error: infinite recursion encountered

       at /nix/store/74g1wnpq5ca2pzygkh2a66yimr78r6xp-source/modules/hyprland/default.nix:51:7:

           50|     (self: super: {
           51|       jetbrains = self.jetbrains // {
             |       ^
           52|         idea-community = pkgs.symlinkJoin {

I’m really not sure how this code causes infinite recursion.

4

Somehow, going back to my original idea is now working. I have no idea what has changed, but it seems to work as expected.