Nix Flake for Zig

This repository is a Nix flake packaging the Zig compiler. The flake mirrors the binaries built officially by Zig and does not build them from source.

This repository is meant to be consumed primarily as a flake but the default.nix can also be imported directly by non-flakes, too.

The flake outputs are documented in flake.nix but an overview:

• Default package and "app" is the latest released version
• packages.<version> for a tagged release
• packages.master for the latest nightly release
• packages.master-<date> for a nightly release
• overlay is an overlay that adds zigpkgs to be the packages exposed by this flake

Usage

Flake Support

In your flake.nix file:

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

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

In a shell:

# run the latest released version
$ nix run 'github:mitchellh/zig-overlay'
# open a shell with nightly version dated 2021-02-13 (oldest version available)
$ nix shell 'github:mitchellh/zig-overlay#master-2021-02-13'
# open a shell with latest nightly version
$ nix shell 'github:mitchellh/zig-overlay#master'

Thanks

This repository is originally hosted by the username arqv. This user and repository disappeared at some point and I had a local checkout so I've forked it, modified it, and reuploaded it here.