Fetch from github dependencies, conky

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In my home-manager config I am trying to install a newer version of conky (hopefully to fix the graphs not having the correct colour) but it does not install dependencies. My config is:

{ pkgs, scripts, ... }:

let
  customConky = pkgs.conky.overrideAttrs (oldAttrs: rec {
    version = "1.21.0";
    src = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
      owner = "brndnmtthws";
      repo = "conky";
      rev = "v${version}";
      sha256 = "0hz2wpbsb6f9lvm9dij6pz8l4h4sj2ll630yd1rm6wfnblbsmgz4";
    };
  });
in 
{
  home.packages = with pkgs; [
    ...
    customConky
  ];
}

running home-manager switch results in this error:

...
       > -- Found Fontconfig: /nix/store/ky4chw5yg9n9rrljxaiahqmmvzrpds31-fontconfig-2.15.0-lib/lib/libfontconfig.so (found version "2.15.0")
       > CMake Error at cmake/ConkyPlatformChecks.cmake:425 (message):
       >   Unable to find Xinput library
       > Call Stack (most recent call first):
       >   CMakeLists.txt:35 (include)
       >
       > 
       > -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
       For full logs, run 'nix log /nix/store/2nycha3xhig4v124rivnld3nzwla7b32-conky-1.21.0.drv'.
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/xhz33hpnq0ncxj61q32y796991innxqn-home-manager-path.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/jsblics5506v55ffd9awa86xamd03jxc-home-manager-generation.drv' failed to build

how do I include these dependencies to fix this? I tried adding xorg.xinput to my package list, but to no avail

2

Remove it.
You need to modify your override to use it.
In addition to src and version, also add in something like

buildInputs = (oldAttrs.buildInputs or []) ++ [ pkgs.xorg.xinput ];

Of course this may not be sufficient, I didn’t test it, but this is the direction to start looking in.

3

This is the completed config that works

let
  customConky = pkgs.conky.overrideAttrs (oldAttrs: rec {
    version = "1.21.0";
    buildInputs = (oldAttrs.buildInputs) ++ [
      pkgs.xorg.libXi
      pkgs.gperf
    ];
    cmakeFlags = oldAttrs.cmakeFlags ++ [
      "-DBUILD_X11=ON"
    ];
    src = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
      owner = "brndnmtthws";
      repo = "conky";
      rev = "v${version}";
      sha256 = "0hz2wpbsb6f9lvm9dij6pz8l4h4sj2ll630yd1rm6wfnblbsmgz4";
    };
  });
in { ... }
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Does this build with Nvidia support?

5

I don’t know, I checked my setup it did not say anything about Nvidia. I don’t run Nvidia so I didn’t bother with that, it has no issues with my amdgpu, though I have yet to get all my config setup yet.

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OK, thanks. I’ve checked the Nix build file and it seems like Nvidia support should be built, but it’s not.