I’m working on a library called libtokyo and I’m including files for nix. I decided I would learn how to use Flakes as I’ve heard its a better way of doing things. So I’ve come up with this nix file:
{
description = "A libadwaita wrapper for ExpidusOS with Tokyo Night's styling";
outputs = { self, nixpkgs }:
let
supportedSystems = [
"aarch64-linux"
"aarch64-darwin"
"i686-linux"
"riscv64-linux"
"x86_64-linux"
"x86_64-darwin"
];
forAllSystems = nixpkgs.lib.genAttrs supportedSystems;
nixpkgsFor = forAllSystems (system: import nixpkgs { inherit system; });
in
{
packages = forAllSystems (system:
let
pkgs = nixpkgsFor.${system};
in
{
default = pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
name = "libtokyo";
src = self;
outputs = [ "out" "dev" ];
nativebuildInputs = with pkgs; [ meson ninja pkg-config vala glib sass ];
buildInputs = with pkgs; [ libadwaita ];
enableParallelBuilding = true;
meta = with pkgs.lib; {
homepage = "https://github.com/ExpidusOS/libtokyo";
license = with licenses; [ gpl3Only ];
maintainers = [ "Tristan Ross" ];
};
};
});
devShells = forAllSystems (system:
let
pkgs = nixpkgsFor.${system};
in
{
default = pkgs.mkShell {
buildInputs = with pkgs; [
meson
ninja
pkg-config
vala
nodejs
gcc
libadwaita.dev
libadwaita.devdoc
];
shellHooks = ''
export PATH="$PWD/node_modules/.bin/:$PATH"
alias run="npm run"
'';
};
});
};
}
I get no issues with nix develop and the nix flake commands but when I execute nix build, I get this output:
error: builder for '/nix/store/nbw87nqqhm3bwqv16224pafdsr8bcnv9-libtokyo.drv' failed with exit code 2;
last 10 log lines:
> source root is source
> patching sources
> configuring
> no configure script, doing nothing
> building
> no Makefile, doing nothing
> glibPreInstallPhase
> installing
> install flags: SHELL=/nix/store/3j918i1nbwhby0y38bn2r438rjhh8f4d-bash-5.1-p16/bin/bash gsettingsschemadir=/nix/store/llcs68z73k4kpd8plmh8cwymcarqgihc-libtokyo/share/gsettings-schemas/libtokyo/glib-2.0/schemas/ pkgconfigdir=/nix/store/x6ziid0pvn4dxz1dmsg94w9mj287qy37-libtokyo-dev/lib/pkgconfig m4datadir=/nix/store/x6ziid0pvn4dxz1dmsg94w9mj287qy37-libtokyo-dev/share/aclocal aclocaldir=/nix/store/x6ziid0pvn4dxz1dmsg94w9mj287qy37-libtokyo-dev/share/aclocal install
> make: *** No rule to make target 'install'. Stop.
For full logs, run 'nix log /nix/store/nbw87nqqhm3bwqv16224pafdsr8bcnv9-libtokyo.drv'.
Running nix log /nix/store/nbw87nqqhm3bwqv16224pafdsr8bcnv9-libtokyo.drv outputs:
@nix { "action": "setPhase", "phase": "unpackPhase" }
unpacking sources
unpacking source archive /nix/store/7m6lslj3ms24is746avxhv9nvz585ppl-source
source root is source
@nix { "action": "setPhase", "phase": "patchPhase" }
patching sources
@nix { "action": "setPhase", "phase": "configurePhase" }
configuring
no configure script, doing nothing
@nix { "action": "setPhase", "phase": "buildPhase" }
building
no Makefile, doing nothing
@nix { "action": "setPhase", "phase": "glibPreInstallPhase" }
glibPreInstallPhase
@nix { "action": "setPhase", "phase": "installPhase" }
installing
install flags: SHELL=/nix/store/3j918i1nbwhby0y38bn2r438rjhh8f4d-bash-5.1-p16/bin/bash gsettingsschemadir=/nix/store/llcs68z73k4kpd8plmh8cwymcarqgihc-libtokyo/share/gsettings-schemas/libtokyo/glib-2.0/schemas/ pkgconfigdir=/nix/store/x6ziid0pvn4dxz1dmsg94w9mj287qy37-libtokyo-dev/lib/pkgconfig m4datadir=/nix/store/x6ziid0pvn4dxz1dmsg94w9mj287qy37-libtokyo-dev/share/aclocal aclocaldir=/nix/store/x6ziid0pvn4dxz1dmsg94w9mj287qy37-libtokyo-dev/share/aclocal install
make: *** No rule to make target 'install'. Stop.
So I am stuck, I’ve looked at other people using Meson and it looks like nix should automatically notice meson and use it but it looks like that’s not true. Since I also see Meson working fine in nixpkgs, it seems like there’s something wrong which I cannot tell that’s related to my flake.nix.