Gtk and rust shell for nixos

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I am very new into Nixos, and need advice for a nix-shell

My mashine is running Nixos 25.11 stable, i am using nix-shells but never touched flakes ore nix command.

Now i like to develop kind of an app with a rust core and a gtk4 UI (i have to learn both of them; rust and gtk as well).

For this project i like to build a nix-shell, but i need advice for tools / packages i need to install, dependencies i have to allocate ore sth. else.

Thank you for Help

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I don’t know what you need for gtk development but this is usually what I start with for a new rust project:

{
  inputs.nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs";

  outputs = {
    nixpkgs,
    ...
  }: let
    system = "x86_64-linux";
    pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system};
  in {
    formatter.x86_64-linux = pkgs.alejandra;

    devShells.x86_64-linux.default = pkgs.mkShell {
      packages = with pkgs; [rustc cargo rust-analyzer clippy rustfmt clang pkg-config];
    };
  };
}
3

Thank you very much for your shell config.

Its not the complete topic with gtk under nixos but i need to learn rust to, so its very helpful.