https://github.com/daddye/zig-overlay

Nix flake for Zig binaries
https://github.com/daddye/zig-overlay

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Nix flake for Zig binaries

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/daddye/zig-overlay
• Owner: DAddYE
• Created: 2021-09-03T05:52:29.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-09-03T18:17:04.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-06-01T16:33:22.985Z (about 1 year ago)
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• Size: 913 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.org

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#+TITLE: Nix flake for Zig

** Description

   In this repository lives a Nix flake packaging the *Zig* compiler binaries using the [[https://ziglang.com/download/index.json][data]] provided by the Zig team.

*** Provided utilities

  - /Nightly/ versions updated daily (=.master.=), starting from version =0.8.0-dev.1140+9270aae07= dated 2021-02-13, and latest master (=.master.latest=) for the sake of convenience.

  - Release versions.

*** Usage

**** Without flake support?

     Import in your project as you would normally (=pkgs.fetchFromGitHub= or =builtins.fetchgit=), with (/hopefully/) no tinkering needed! The =default.nix= exposes a =pkgs= argument for possible pinning of the Nixpkgs repository, and a =system= argument which defaults to =builtins.currentSystem=.

     To make it visible in your system configuration:

     #+begin_src nix

       # It is a good idea to use an exact commit in place of 'main' here.

       let zigf = fetchTarball "https://github.com/arqv/zig-overlay/archive/main.tar.gz" in

         # If you're using home-manager

         home.packages = [ zigf.master.latest ]; # or any available version

         # If you're using NixOS

         users.user..packages = [ zigf.master.latest ]; # or any available version

       # ...the rest of your configuration

     #+end_src

**** With flake support?

     In your =flake.nix= file:

    #+begin_src nix

      {

        inputs.zig.url = "github:arqv/zig-overlay";

        outputs = { self, zig, ... }: {

          ...

        };

      }

    #+end_src

     In a shell:

    #+begin_src sh

      # run the latest version (0.7.1)

      $ nix run 'github:arqv/zig-overlay'

      # open a shell with master version dated 2021-02-13 (oldest version available)

      $ nix shell 'github:arqv/zig-overlay#master."2021-02-13"'

      # open a shell with latest master version

      $ nix shell 'github:arqv/zig-overlay#master.latest'

    #+end_src

 

** For contributors

  The =update= script manages updating the information in =sources.json=. The only dependency is Nix, and it's written internally in Ruby.