Right now this fails for me:

gcc  -O2 -L../..//libs_bin64  -o cif bjferror.o bjfilter.o bjfimage.o bjfoption.o bjfpos.o bjfrcaccess.o getipc.o bjflist.o -lcnbpcmcm -lcnbpess -lm -ldl -ltiff -lpng -lcnbpcnclapi -lcnbpcnclbjcmd -lcnbpcnclui -lpopt 
/nix/store/sq2b0dqlq243mqn4ql5h36xmpplyy20k-binutils-2.31.1/bin/ld: cannot find -lcnbpcmcm
/nix/store/sq2b0dqlq243mqn4ql5h36xmpplyy20k-binutils-2.31.1/bin/ld: cannot find -lcnbpess
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Yes, I see the same thing. Oddly, if I build step-by-step in nix-shell it doesn't happen. BTW, for development it's a good idea to comment out all but one printer model, then it configures much faster.

How exactly do you build step by step? (I'd like to reproduce)

BTW, for development it's a good idea to comment out all but one printer model, then it configures much faster.

Oh thanks, that's a good hint :) maybe it's possible to make each printer model its own derivation?

My attempt:

$ nix-shell -A pkgs.cnijfilter-common.cnijfilter-3_80

[nix-shell] $ phases="configurePhase buildPhase" genericBuild
configuring
libs
bash: pushd: libs: No such file or directory

exit

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

I usually do it like this:

From the nixpkgs directory:

nix-shell default.nix --pure -A pkgs.cnijfilter-common
mkdir /tmp/canon-build
cd /tmp/canon-build
unpackPhase
cd cnijfilter-source-3.80-1
patchPhase
eval "$configurePhase"
eval "$buildPhase"

Oh thanks, that's a good hint :) maybe it's possible to make each printer model its own derivation?

I think initially we should just replicate what the Gentoo overlay does and have packages supporting multiple printers (since most users will just get it from Hydra anyway). We should also have some nixos module that selects the appropriate package for your printer.

Then for v2, we could move to the approach suggested here where the common part is built separately and each printer has its own package.

-lcnbpcmcm

The error must be that some environment variable is not set. The correct library name should be e.g. -lcnbpcmcm402, where 402 corresponds to some model id. I guess this works in the nix-shell because it persists some environment variables differently?

Excellent, thanks for your help. cnijfilter_3_80 now builds, but some stuff seems to end up in $out/usr/libexec/cups/backend/, the cnijnet and cnijusb executables.

I ported the ebuilds for the other driver versions, sadly most of them don't build yet.

@terlar does it work for you on this branch?

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