How to add custom derivation as buildInput to another derivation

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This is the derivation using which I am trying to build an sway alternate called sway-regolith. But it has trawldb as its dependency which is not in nixpkgs. I have created my own derivation for trawl. And It would be helpful if someone can help me to add trawl as build dependency in this derivation.

Sway-Derivation

{ lib, trawl,stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, substituteAll, swaybg
, meson, ninja, pkg-config, wayland-scanner, scdoc
, libGL, wayland, libxkbcommon, pcre2, json_c, libevdev
, pango, cairo, libinput, gdk-pixbuf, librsvg
, wlroots, wayland-protocols, libdrm
, nixosTests
# Used by the NixOS module:
, isNixOS ? false
, enableXWayland ? true, xorg
, systemdSupport ? lib.meta.availableOn stdenv.hostPlatform systemd, systemd
, trayEnabled ? systemdSupport
}:

stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
  pname = "sway-unwrapped";
  version = "1.9";

  inherit enableXWayland isNixOS systemdSupport trayEnabled;
  # src = fetchFromGitHub {
  #   owner = "swaywm";
  #   repo = "sway";
  #   rev = finalAttrs.version;
  #   hash = "sha256-/6+iDkQfdLcL/pTJaqNc6QdP4SRVOYLjfOItEu/bZtg=";
  # };

  src=../.;

  patches = [
    ./load-configuration-from-etc.patch

    (substituteAll {
      src = ./fix-paths.patch;
      inherit swaybg;
    })

  ] ++ lib.optionals (!finalAttrs.isNixOS) [
    # References to /nix/store/... will get GC'ed which causes problems when
    # copying the default configuration:
    ./sway-config-no-nix-store-references.patch
  ] ++ lib.optionals finalAttrs.isNixOS [
    # Use /run/current-system/sw/share and /etc instead of /nix/store
    # references:
    ./sway-config-nixos-paths.patch
  ];

  strictDeps = true;
  depsBuildBuild = [
    pkg-config
  ];

  nativeBuildInputs = [
    meson ninja pkg-config wayland-scanner scdoc trawl
  ];

  buildInputs = [
    libGL wayland libxkbcommon pcre2 json_c libevdev
    pango cairo libinput gdk-pixbuf librsvg
    wayland-protocols libdrm
    (wlroots.override { inherit (finalAttrs) enableXWayland; })
  ] ++ lib.optionals finalAttrs.enableXWayland [
    xorg.xcbutilwm
  ];

  mesonFlags = let
    inherit (lib.strings) mesonEnable mesonOption;

    # The "sd-bus-provider" meson option does not include a "none" option,
    # but it is silently ignored iff "-Dtray=disabled".  We use "basu"
    # (which is not in nixpkgs) instead of "none" to alert us if this
    # changes: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/6843#issuecomment-1047288761
    # assert trayEnabled -> systemdSupport && dbusSupport;

    sd-bus-provider =  if systemdSupport then "libsystemd" else "basu";
    in [
      (mesonOption "sd-bus-provider" sd-bus-provider)
      (mesonEnable "xwayland" finalAttrs.enableXWayland)
      (mesonEnable "tray" finalAttrs.trayEnabled)
    ];

  passthru.tests.basic = nixosTests.sway;

  meta = {
    description = "An i3-compatible tiling Wayland compositor";
    longDescription = ''
      Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3
      window manager for X11. It works with your existing i3 configuration and
      supports most of i3's features, plus a few extras.
      Sway allows you to arrange your application windows logically, rather
      than spatially. Windows are arranged into a grid by default which
      maximizes the efficiency of your screen and can be quickly manipulated
      using only the keyboard.
    '';
    homepage    = "https://swaywm.org";
    changelog   = "https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/${finalAttrs.version}";
    license     = lib.licenses.mit;
    platforms   = lib.platforms.linux;
    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ primeos synthetica ];
    mainProgram = "sway";
  };
})

Trawl Derivation

{ pkgs}:
# let
#   nixpkgs = builtins.fetchTarball {
#     url = "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/nixos-24.05.tar.gz";
#   };

#   pkgs = import nixpkgs { config = {}; };
# in
pkgs.rustPlatform.buildRustPackage {
  pname = "trawl";
  version = "3.1";

  src = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
    owner = "sandptel";
    repo = "trawl";
    rev = "master";
    hash = "sha256-A50ndcKdXQssL3SRG3INpU/8XelbPx3XlgJ/LdN2RUU=";
  };

cargoHash = "sha256-Nnc+j7mBRibPr33mOb9PvMq4lula23iZCuUqB+FLaAY=";

buildInputs = with pkgs;[ glib pkg-config ];

  meta = {
    mainProgram = "trawl";
    description = "Simple Xresources style linux based configuration system that is independent of distro / display backend (Wayland / X11 / etc).";
    homepage = "https://github.com/regolith-linux/trawl";
    license = pkgs.lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
  };
  
}

The Error

      > Run-time dependency xcb-icccm found: YES 0.4.2
       > Run-time dependency threads found: YES
       > Run-time dependency trawldb found: NO (tried pkgconfig)
       >
       > meson.build:67:10: ERROR: Dependency "trawldb" not found, tried pkgconfig
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trawl’s repository has multiple crates. It doesn’t seem like you’re picking one specific crate to build.