| 16 Nov 2025 |
 K900 | I can maybe be convinced to try MinGW, though I would significantly prefer Clang/MSVC | 17:37:28 |
| K900 | Cygwin however is just not the right tool for anything, ever | 17:37:51 |
| K900 | Except getting a shiny "look my Linux thing runs on Windows kinda sorta" PoC | 17:38:06 |
 @corngood:corngood.com | I've used it a lot over the years for all sorts of things so I'm not going to agree with that. I have a pretty complicated dev setup with emacs, X11, etc | 17:39:06 |
| @corngood:corngood.com | To me it just seems like the path of least resistance to making nix usable on windows for some of the things I'd like to use it for. | 17:40:16 |
| K900 | And look at the amount of patches they apply to all of that | 17:40:18 |
| @corngood:corngood.com | I've been through a lot of those patches getting nix to build in cross, and then natively on cygwin. Most of them aren't hacks. They just need some upstreaming work. | 17:41:35 |
| @corngood:corngood.com | I also think nixpkgs could be extremely useful for keeping that process alive. | 17:42:35 |
| @corngood:corngood.com | Anyway, I can make do without hydra support, I just need a binary cache and maybe better builders. Thanks for the builder recommendation above. Anyone have any thoughts on hosting a public binary cache for something like this? | 17:47:22 |
