Stuck on bug while trying to port OpenJFX to NixOS

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So I’m trying to port OpenJFX to NixOS by adding it as an overlay to the openjdk11 package. I’ve seperated out openjdk/openjfx/default.nix into it’s own derivation and it builds as expected. I’ve also added it as an argument to openjdk/11.nix. In all-packages.nix I’ve defined openjfx = callPackage ../development/compilers/openjdk/openjfx { }; and passed it as an argument to openjdk as such:

openjdk11 =
    if stdenv.isDarwin then
      callPackage ../development/compilers/openjdk/darwin/11.nix { }
    else
      callPackage ../development/compilers/openjdk/11.nix {
        inherit (gnome2) GConf gnome_vfs openjfx;
      };

When I try to run nix-build -A openjdk11 I get an error

error: attribute 'openjfx' missing, at /home/skykanin/Documents/Projects/nixpkgs/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix:7673:60

complaining that the openjfx attribute is missing even though it is defined in all-packages.nix and being inherited in the openjdk11 definition as shown in the above snippet. So I don’t understand what the issue is.

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Wouldn’t inherit (gnome2) openjfx mean that it’s looking for an attrpath like gnome2.openjfx? I think you just need a new line like inherit openjfx if it’s at the top level.

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You are correct, also since openjfx is at the top level it doesn’t actually need to be explicitly inherited at all. The openjdk11 package now builds. Thank you!

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I had a go at this once but gave up due to the difficulty working with Gradle at that time. You may be able to learn something from it:

https://github.com/eqyiel/dotfiles/blob/1ced5108f9bf1b5ca6cd8d878f28e4c71efee9f0/nix/.config/nixpkgs/packages/openjfx/default.nix
https://github.com/eqyiel/dotfiles/blob/1ced5108f9bf1b5ca6cd8d878f28e4c71efee9f0/nix/.config/nixpkgs/packages/all-packages.nix#L57