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I love Guile over Nix syntax, but the one killer feature Nix has that Guix doesn’t is making a single static binary of common programs and then deploying them e

I love Guile over Nix syntax, but the one killer feature Nix has that Guix doesn’t is making a single static binary of common programs and then deploying them elsewhere. In Nix, this is a single flag. In Guix, you either deploy with all libraries on a custom /guix path, or nothing.

dhon_ 9mo ago
How do you do it in nix?
- r14c 9mo ago
  Sounds like nix-bundle, but that's not a standard feature.
  - tetris11 9mo ago
    nix build nixpkgs#pkgsStatic.emacs So, it's not so much a static build from a flag, as it is a large corpus of statically defined recipes independent from the other packages that you can build from
kwk1 9mo ago
Is `guix pack` not sufficient for this? https://guix.gnu.org/manual/1.5.0/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-pack.html https://guix.gnu.org/manual/1.5.0/en/html_node/Invoking-guix...
- tetris11 9mo ago
  No, it produces a tree of libraries that you have to untar on the host machine. If you dont have root, then unpacking to /gnu/store is impossible
  - kwk1 9mo ago
    I checked and it looks like the root-required issue has been addressed with a --relocatable flag, and there are a few options as well for needing to untar, e.g. producing an appimage format output.
    - tetris11 9mo ago
      I think I tried with this flag, but either it was incompatible with a cross-compile target, or it did not support my target arch properly