This folder contains configuration for Nix, a purely functional package manager used by the Status Go for its build process.
The main config file is nix/nix.conf
and its main purpose is defining the binary caches which allow download of packages to avoid having to compile them yourself locally.
In order to access an interactive Nix shell a user should run make shell
.
The Nix shell is started in this repo via the nix/scripts/shell.sh
script, which is a wrapper around the nix-shell
command and is intended for use with our main Makefile
. This allows for an implicit use of nix-shell
as the default shell in the Makefile
.
nix-shell
needs to be spawned.
You can learn more about Nix by watching these presentations:
- Nix Fundamentals (PDF, src)
- Nix in Status (PDF, src)
And you can read nix/DETAILS.md
for more information.
See KNOWN_ISSUES.md
.