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Re:Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduct... by pxc on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @07:24PM (#34512614)
Ah so have you been trying to trailblaze to port Guix to macOS a bit, then?
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Re:Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduct... by rekado on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @05:32AM (#34516695)
This will not work.

There's no port of the GNU C Library for macOS, and there's no free toolchain that would let us build binaries for macOS.

Possible routes are:

- virtualization (use a GNU system on top of macOS) - arbitrarily cut the graph and graft macOS-built binaries on top of a huge binary blob specific to macOS

Neither of these seem appealing.

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Re:Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduct... by pxc on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @01:09PM (#34521919)
Which of these approaches is used by GNU coreutils, GNU sed, GNU grep, etc., on macOS? I love having them whenever I have to use macOS.
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Re:Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduct... by n8henrie on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @02:17PM (#34522854)
No, not smart enough to "port" exactly, was just trying to get the aarch64 binary to run (no luck), and eventually got it working in a VM: https://n8henrie.com/2022/10/guix-system-guixsd-vm-on-an-m1-...
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