How to install bazel for nix develop shell in nixos? any instructions?

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nix develop .#build
Welcome to devshell!
[deveshell] $bazel
bazel: command not found

2

There’s not quite enough context in your post to know what your trying to do or why’s going wrong for you. This works for me:

❯ cat flake.nix
{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable";
    flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
  };

  outputs = {
    self,
    nixpkgs,
    flake-utils,
  }:
    flake-utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (system: let
      pkgs = import nixpkgs {
        inherit system;
      };
    in
    {
      devShells.default = with pkgs; mkShell {
        packages = [
          pkgs.bazel
        ];
      };
    });
}
❯ git add flake.nix
❯ nix develop
[matt@vorpal:~/2023/08/23]$ bazel
Usage: bazel <command> <options> ...

I’m not a bazel user myself, but I have to assume that if your project needs it in the devshell then you might also want a packages attribute in outptut which invokes bazel when you run nix build.

A bit of grepping nixpkgs turns up this as a possible example.

buildBazelPackage is defined here.

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Thanks Matt! Yes, that works!