Introduction Nixpkgs recently merged PR #93568, allowing the Nix package manager to cross-compile packages to Redox. As expected, few of Nixpkgs’s 60,000 packages cross-compile to Redox without failing. I’ve created redoxpkgs, a wrapper around Nixpkgs to fix broken packages, with the hope that some patches will eventually be adapted upstream. Nix has several properties that make cross-compiling to Redox pleasant. First, Nix reproducibly compiles packages, meaning that if a build works on ...
