Hi!
I am trying to package HelixPlan (free download at Helix Plan Client | Perforce ) for NixOS. I first tried to copy the p4v package available in nixpkgs, adding the couple extra dependencies that HelixPlan needs. This allowed it to run, however as soon as I try to connect to a server, it tells me the version is wrong and downloads the correct one to ~/.HelixPlan/Versions/some-unique-hash/HelixPlan, which I believe it then tries and fails to run (as it is missing the patches made to the original ELF).
How should I instead attempt to package this? I tried an FHSenv but did not have any luck, though it is likely I just set it up wrong.
Here is my working package for running the client (which breaks when it tries to auto-update):
default.nix:
{
fetchzip,
lib,
qt6Packages,
}: let
mkDerivation = qt6Packages.callPackage ./linux.nix {};
in
mkDerivation rec {
pname = "helixplan";
version = "2024.1016";
src = fetchzip {
# NOTE: remove the 2.6 for newer versions
url = "https://cache.hansoft.com/Helix%20Plan%20${version}%20Linux2.6%20x64.zip";
sha256 = "sha256-jKRcFlu3rKUgImgNRNsBOdjMaRZsaSGvgWIKqV5KOv8=";
};
meta = {
description = "Perforce Helix Plan";
homepage = "https://www.perforce.com";
sourceProvenance = with lib.sourceTypes; [binaryNativeCode];
license = lib.licenses.unfreeRedistributable;
};
}
linux.nix:
{
stdenv,
autoPatchelfHook,
cups,
dbus,
fontconfig,
gccForLibs,
libX11,
libXcomposite,
libXcursor,
libXdamage,
libXext,
libXi,
libXrandr,
libXrender,
libXtst,
libinput,
libxcb,
libxkbcommon,
nss,
qtbase,
qtmultimedia,
qtsvg,
qttools,
qtwebengine,
qtwebview,
xcbutilimage,
xcbutilkeysyms,
xcbutilrenderutil,
xcbutilwm,
}: {
pname,
version,
src,
meta,
}: let
unwrapped = stdenv.mkDerivation {
pname = "${pname}-unwrapped";
inherit version src meta;
nativeBuildInputs = [autoPatchelfHook];
buildInputs = [
cups
dbus
fontconfig
gccForLibs
libX11
libXcomposite
libXcursor
libXdamage
libXext
libXi
libXrandr
libXrender
libXtst
libinput
libxcb
libxkbcommon
nss
qtbase
qtmultimedia
qtsvg
qttools
qtwebengine
qtwebview
xcbutilimage
xcbutilkeysyms
xcbutilrenderutil
xcbutilwm
];
dontBuild = true;
# Don't wrap the Qt apps; upstream has its own wrapper scripts.
dontWrapQtApps = true;
installPhase = ''
mkdir -p $out/bin
cp -r HelixPlan $out/bin
'';
preFixup = ''
patchelf --clear-symbol-version close $out/bin/HelixPlan
'';
};
in
stdenv.mkDerivation {
inherit pname version;
# Build a "clean" version of the package so that we don't add extra ".bin" or
# configuration files to users' PATHs. We can't easily put the unwrapped
# package files in libexec (where they belong, probably) because the upstream
# wrapper scripts have the bin directory hardcoded.
buildCommand = ''
mkdir -p $out/bin
ln -s ${unwrapped}/bin/HelixPlan $out/bin
'';
preferLocalBuild = true;
inherit (unwrapped) meta passthru;
}