OK some progress updates:
Ready/merged:
- Allow getting in a MinGW dev shell by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #9519 · NixOS/nix · GitHub : Makes it possible to do development with ease from Linux and Darwin!
- Allow installing unit tests by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #9360 · NixOS/nix · GitHub : Allow installing the unit tests so we can cross compile them and run them elsewhere.
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Make lowdown optional by wegank · Pull Request #9710 · NixOS/nix · GitHub : Until Build failure with MinGW · Issue #130 · kristapsdz/lowdown · GitHub is fixed, we cannot build
lowdownfor windows. This makes the dep optional to avoid that for now. -
Improve build sytem support for readline instead of editline by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #9728 · NixOS/nix · GitHub : Better build system support for readline instead of editline (will allow interactive
nix replon Windows).
Next major milestone:
- Build unit tests with MinGW by Ericson2314 · Pull Request #8901 · NixOS/nix · GitHub : Draft PR taking a subset of @volth’s work and pairing it down to just focus on building the unit tests successfully.