Inspiration & History
carnix was already widely used in NixOS itself and also built projects at crate granularity!
Unfortunately, it failed to generate correct builds for
@kolloch’s rust projects. After some attempts to
fix carnix itself, he gave up and started crate2nix. That said, big kudos for all the
work on buildRustCrate and showing the way!
The NixOS Wiki Rust Page contains a nice overview over currently available approaches for building rust projects with nix.
Other Related Projects
- naersk uses cargo to drive the entire build. It builds all dependencies in one derivation and the crate itself in another. Since it relies on hashes from the Cargo.lock file, I don’t know how it handles git dependencies with sub modules.
- tenx-tech/cargo2nix: I
haven’t used it so take it with a grain of salt but I think
- it uses its own build logic instead of
buildRustCratebut still builds each crate in its own derivation. - it has some support for cross building (which is quite weak in crate2nix).
- it uses its own build logic instead of
- cargo-raze generates
BUILDfiles for bazel.