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0 pointsthroitallaway8mo ago0 comments

Software that has only dynamically linked binaries available for it (and no source) are one such example. The main Azure CLI tool is built in Python but it downloads binaries for certain actions on the fly if it needs them. These are a major PITA (or impossible) to get working correctly on NixOS.

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tombert8mo ago

I agree it's annoying, though if you need dynamically linked stuff, there's always the FHS environments [1]. You can also do an FHS shell if you don't want to make a package.

There's also nix-ld [2], which allows you to directly run unpatched binaries.

[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/by-name/bi...

[2] https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=unstable&show=progr...

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tombert8mo ago

I agree it's annoying, though if you need dynamically linked stuff, there's always the FHS environments [1]. You can also do an FHS shell if you don't want to make a package.

There's also nix-ld [2], which allows you to directly run unpatched binaries.

[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/by-name/bi...

[2] https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=unstable&show=progr...

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