 | Nix Cross Compiling | 580 Members |
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| Nix Cross Compiling | 580 Members |
| 125 Servers |
| Sender | Message | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Feb 2026 | ||
 crazychaoz | thanks for the invested time ^^ | 12:51:45 |
| 25 Feb 2026 | ||
 @rosssmyth:matrix.org | tbh you are holding it wrong a bit. You are manually doing the splicing which may be messing it up. You are declaring that you are building for x64 linux, so that is what stdenv thinks. You put compilers into depsBuildBuild, which stdenv thinks "this is a compiler that runs on build (x64 linux) and targets build (x64 linux)". I'm not sure if stdenv.cc is spliced though. It may not be.But you are telling stdenv that the headers will be used for a linux host, so it refuses to compile. This was most likely "broken" by me here https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/430165 But in reality I would call this, mostly "working as intended" | 15:06:04 |
| @rosssmyth:matrix.org | The "proper" way of doing this is making a derivation function and pkgsCross.mingwW64.callPackageing it | 15:06:38 |
| @rosssmyth:matrix.org | * tbh you are holding it wrong a bit. You are manually doing the splicing which may be messing it up. You are declaring that you are building for x64 linux, so that is what stdenv thinks. You put compilers into depsBuildBuild, which stdenv thinks "this is a compiler that runs on build (x64 linux) and targets build (x64 linux)". I'm not sure if stdenv.cc is spliced though. It may not be.But you are telling stdenv that the headers will be used for a linux host, so it refuses to compile. This was most likely "broken" by me here https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/430165 But in reality I would call this, mostly, "working as intended" | 15:08:01 |
 Artturin | Theres no manual slicing in that, instead they're not getting spliced packages at all | 15:23:19 |
| Artturin | * Theres no manual splicing in that, ~~instead they're not getting spliced packages at all~~ disregard that, I forgot that pkgs is now spliced | 15:24:35 |
| Artturin | .cc isn't spliced because it's a derivation inside a derivation | 15:25:38 |
| @rosssmyth:matrix.org | makes sense | 15:26:31 |
| Artturin | So actually now that pkgs is spliced the issue is that they're spliced now :D | 15:27:31 |
| Artturin | To not splice you need to be explicit pkgsCross.mingwW64.pkgsBuildHost.windows.pthreads. This will get rid of the error | 15:28:57 |
| crazychaoz | it did not get rid of my error sadly, could anybody test my build please? | 16:00:10 |
 dramforever | pkgsCross.mingwW64.pkgsHostTarget.windows.pthreads | 16:05:08 |
| dramforever | HT is the normal one, BH is buildPackages, BB is buildPackages.buildPackages | 16:07:04 |
| dramforever | the rest are cursed | 16:07:08 |
| 26 Feb 2026 | ||
 Tristan Ross |
| 01:45:51 |
| Tristan Ross | Wait, is it because RC=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-windres... | 02:05:24 |
| Tristan Ross | Oh no, unsetting it fixes the issue | 02:06:08 |
| Tristan Ross | https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/482391 might've caused it | 02:08:45 |
| Tristan Ross | https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/494215 I have a fix | 02:15:22 |
 Lily Foster changed their profile picture. | 14:01:23 | |
| crazychaoz | alright, that fixed it but why does it have to be fixed?!? i am specifically cross compiling to windows (my usage of also why was that changed (it worked before)? | 14:24:41 |
 K900 | windows is a general namespace for Windows specific packages | 14:25:46 |
| K900 | There's no pthreads package at top level because it's normally provided by libc | 14:25:54 |
| crazychaoz | obviously, but i am compiling with i have had issues before with tools that need to get compiled on host&target (eg. protobuf) but here the situation should be clear? i run compilation for windows, with win pthreads, why would i ever want to compile windows.pthreads for non windows targets? | 14:32:30 |
| K900 | Look, that's just how nixpkgs is structured | 14:34:43 |
| crazychaoz | ack | 14:38:01 |
| @rosssmyth:matrix.org | I would like to fix it, but testing and implementing cross is annoying due to different people telling me different things of what to do and what not to do. | 15:42:06 |
| @rosssmyth:matrix.org | * I would like to fix it, but testing and implementing it is annoying due to different people telling me different things of what to do and what not to do. | 15:42:13 |
| Artturin | pthreads should be in buildInputs | 15:44:00 |
| Artturin | The reason it works for you is that you're not using a cross stdenv so strictDeps isn't enabled | 15:44:19 |