Did you run into https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/19?
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Sander van der Burg - EWI < s.vanderb...@tudelft.nl> wrote: > Hello Nixers, > > Recently I had to do couple of development tasks on *cough cough* MS > Windows. > > Unfortunately, Nix did not seem to work on it anymore, so I have decided > revive the Cygwin support. I had to make a few subtle modifications to the > Nix package manager, such as including cstdlib at several places, because a > few functions were undeclared according to the compiler. > > Moreover, the -std=c++0x gcc parameter caused another file not to compile > because fdopen() could not be found (because it's not ANSI/ISO C). I solved > it changing the gcc parameter to -std=gnu++0x > > Currently, these changes live in my personal Nix fork: > > > https://github.com/svanderburg/nix/commit/7f685b6550d7393874fc6ef26b9a03a8ace2f90e > > Moreover, I had to fix a couple of things in Nixpkgs. These changes also > live in my personal fork of Nixpkgs: > > > https://github.com/svanderburg/nixpkgs/commit/9ec52d632302ad6267a83b563de9927f886e1817 > > Besides a couple of essential cygwin fixes, I also added support for > x86_64-cygwin, which also seems to exist these days. > > To make the Nix package manager work on Cygwin, I had to install the > following Perl packages through CPAN (besides having all the relevant > development packages installed): > > perl -MCPAN -e 'install DBD::SQLite' > perl -MCPAN -e 'install WWW::Curl' > > I compiled and installed Nix by running the following command-line > instructions: > > ./configure --disable-perl-bindings > make BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=0 > make BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=0 install > > I disabled building shared libs, as they can't really be properly used > with Nix on Cygwin anyway, so there is no need to investigate how to enable > them. > > I don't know if anyone is in favour of getting these changes merged > upstream? Our current policy is that "Cygwin is not officially supported". > But if that doesn't matter, I can file a pull request so that anyone can > benefit from these changes. > > Moreover, any feedback is welcome! > > Regards, > > Sander van der Burg > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > >
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