Xorg 32 bit development libraries with nix-shell

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Hello!

I have some trouble with linking an simple C program that depends on 32 bit version of libX11.

I can provide an minimal example:

#include <X11/Xlib.h>
int main()
{
 XrmInitialize();
 return 0;
}

And I am trying to compile it with gcc -m32 myprogram.c -lX11 but linker fails with the following output:

/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11: No such file or directory
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/m81vwjvzw0js60ca2g1j02z30pfr68fw-libX11-1.8.7/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/hd2dlkkz5mpxpgdfxqbzfmn07qyvdw3k-gcc-12.3.0-lib/lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 when searching for libgcc_s.so.1
/nix/store/3z013mdl9cvpgvavpj19rbilihz4clvi-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /nix/store/hd2dlkkz5mpxpgdfxqbzfmn07qyvdw3k-gcc-12.3.0-lib/lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 when searching for libgcc_s.so.1
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

My .nix shell configuration file is looks like this:

{ 
  pkgs            ? import <nixpkgs> {},
  pkgsx86_64Linux ? import <nixpkgs> { system = "x86_64-linux"; },
  pkgsi686Linux   ? import <nixpkgs> { system = "i686-linux"; }
}:

pkgs.multiStdenv.mkDerivation {
  name = "Xprog";
  buildInputs = with pkgs;
  [
    gcc
    gnumake
    xorg.libX11
    xorg.libX11.dev
  ];
}

What I am doing wrong?

P.S linker has no problems in 64 bit mode

2

stdenv comes with its own copy of gcc, and you should not add extra copies of gcc to your shell.

If you want a pure 32 bits programs, then take all packages from pkgsi686Linux, including stdenv:

{ 
  # pkgs            ? import <nixpkgs> {},
  pkgsi686Linux   ? import <nixpkgs> { system = "i686-linux"; }
}:

pkgsi686Linux.stdenv.mkDerivation {
  name = "Xprog";
  buildInputs = with pkgsi686Linux;
  [
    xorg.libX11
  ];
}