# Nix on Windows?

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-on-windows/1113
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [October 10, 2018, 6:52am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-on-windows/1113 "2018-10-10T06:52:18Z")
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#### Post date: [October 12, 2018, 10:34am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-on-windows/1113/6 "2018-10-12T10:34:46Z")

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Yes. We do have a full haskell (including TH) cross compilation toolchain for (darwin → windows) and (Linux → windows).

In general cross compiling c++ is a major pain though, due to c++11 threading features, when using mingw.

However if you can live without some c++, it’s absolutely doable!

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