I’d love some help creating a derivation for installing Insomnia.app for macOS. The linux derivation may be of some help, in terms of runtime dependencies; not sure.
So, I’ve taken jwiegley’s overlay 30-apps.nix as a reference for how to install macOS apps via nix.
Installing something like Zotero works fine. It installs happily, is linked in ~/.nix-profile/Applications, and starts happily via open -a Zotero.
But in trying to define a derivation for Insomnia it fails to start, due to a linkage error. Downloading the same dmg and installing it into the standard macOS /Applications location starts up just fine.
Any ideas?
The error upon launching Insomnia from nix is as follows:
Process: Insomnia [56589]
Path: /Volumes/VOLUME/*/Insomnia.app/Contents/MacOS/Insomnia
Identifier: com.insomnia.app
Version: 7.1.1 (7.1.1.3350)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: Insomnia [56589]
User ID: 501
Date/Time: 2020-03-12 18:45:42.145 +1100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.15.3 (19D76)
Report Version: 12
Bridge OS Version: 4.2 (17P3050)
Anonymous UUID: AABD1439-665E-61B1-A942-E6ADC22C6409
Sleep/Wake UUID: E45909D3-158F-4300-8BE4-BF5BB221E7FE
Time Awake Since Boot: 400000 seconds
Time Since Wake: 3600 seconds
System Integrity Protection: enabled
Crashed Thread: 0
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY
Termination Reason: DYLD, [0x1] Library missing
Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: @rpath/Electron Framework.framework/Electron Framework
Referenced from: /Volumes/VOLUME/*/Insomnia.app/Contents/MacOS/Insomnia
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/nix/store/8yqxccj5a6ax58wxsrrwy4ywjvpyhjhm-Insomnia-7.1.1/Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework/Electron Framework: file too short
/nix/store/8yqxccj5a6ax58wxsrrwy4ywjvpyhjhm-Insomnia-7.1.1/Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework/Electron Framework: stat() failed with errno=1
Binary Images:
0x10f29a000 - 0x10f29aff3 +com.insomnia.app (7.1.1 - 7.1.1.3350) <4FAD2A7B-B418-358C-949F-1104B0620579> /Volumes/VOLUME/*/Insomnia.app/Contents/MacOS/Insomnia
0x114be4000 - 0x114c74cb7 dyld (733.8) <EBC07CB6-870A-3A8E-B48A-67F62EA161F3> /usr/lib/dyld
My overlay 30-macos-apps.nix is as follows so far:
self: super: {
installApplication =
{ name, appname ? name, version, src, description, homepage,
postInstall ? "", sourceRoot ? ".", ... }:
with super; stdenv.mkDerivation {
name = "${name}-${version}";
version = "${version}";
src = src;
buildInputs = [ undmg unzip ];
sourceRoot = sourceRoot;
phases = [ "unpackPhase" "installPhase" ];
installPhase = ''
mkdir -p "$out/Applications/${appname}.app"
cp -pR * "$out/Applications/${appname}.app"
'' + postInstall;
meta = with stdenv.lib; {
description = description;
homepage = homepage;
maintainers = with maintainers; [ jwiegley ];
platforms = platforms.darwin;
};
};
Insomnia = self.installApplication rec {
name = "Insomnia";
version = "7.1.1";
sourceRoot = "Insomnia.app";
src = super.fetchurl {
name = "insomnia-${version}.dmg";
url = "https://github.com/getinsomnia/insomnia/releases/download/v${version}/Insomnia-${version}.dmg";
sha256 = "7718dd2c1a6ec0edafe36116d9123cda80b769abadc2d4fc5c5389922c7dfa6f";
};
description = "Cross-platform HTTP and GraphQL Client";
homepage = https://insomnia.rest;
};
Zotero = self.installApplication rec {
name = "Zotero";
version = "5.0.84";
sourceRoot = "Zotero.app";
src = super.fetchurl {
name = "zotero-${version}.dmg";
url = "https://download.zotero.org/client/release/${version}/Zotero-${version}.dmg";
sha256 = "0nfgbbwls576hi0bvjb47b5sn65ygxj3vz102s1jsvmk4pkwvap8";
};
description = ''
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite,
and share your research sources
'';
homepage = https://www.zotero.org;
};
}