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diff --git a/Exposing development headers on Nixos.md b/Exposing development headers on Nixos.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..72db811 --- /dev/null +++ b/Exposing development headers on Nixos.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +--- +tags: + - nixos +--- +On regular distro's such as Ubuntu we would install them system-wide, for example, `apt install libx` + +On NixOS these kind of outputs (on search.nixos.org the pkgs should specify out: dev) are not exposed by default, so installing the package system wide doesn't work. + +Instead they get loaded when the package is installed in a nix shell: +``` +[nix-shell:~/projects/group.one/vps/openstack/puppet-neutron]$ cat shell.nix +{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {}}: pkgs.mkShell { + packages = [ pkgs.augeas pkgs.pkg-config pkgs.libxml2 ]; +} +```
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