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pkgsStatic: use clang for C compiler on Darwin #86223

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Motivation for this change

As title. Looks like people haven't really been using pkgsStatic on Darwin for a long time.

In addition to the testing steps listed below, I also ran some manual tests since pkgsStatic has very little test coverage in nixpkgs overall.

# build a static library
$ nix-build . -A pkgsStatic.bzip2
# build a bin that requires CF
$ nix-build . -A pkgsStatic.htop
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  • Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS linux)
  • Built on platform(s)
    • macOS
  • Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
  • Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review wip"
  • Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • Determined the impact on package closure size (by running nix path-info -S before and after)
  • Ensured that relevant documentation is up to date
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

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@ofborg ofborg bot added the 6.topic: darwin Running or building packages on Darwin label Apr 28, 2020
@pikajude pikajude force-pushed the darwin-static-eval branch from 7a03502 to 0de6275 Compare April 28, 2020 15:43
@ofborg ofborg bot added 6.topic: stdenv Standard environment 10.rebuild-darwin: 0 This PR does not cause any packages to rebuild on Darwin 10.rebuild-linux: 0 This PR does not cause any packages to rebuild on Linux labels Apr 28, 2020
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emilazy commented Apr 28, 2020 •
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macOS doesn't actually officially support static linking, right? I remember it being brittle and them going to some lengths to break building static executables over time.

Not that I object to supporting it, just wondering if it should maybe have some kind of warning on it.

Edit: Ah, I see; these still link to libSystem, so they're not really "static executables", just statically linked to their nixpkgs dependencies.

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pkgs/top-level/static.nix
makeStaticDarwin = stdenv: stdenv // {
makeStaticDarwin = stdenv_: let stdenv = stdenv_.override {
# extraBuildInputs are dropped in cross.nix, but darwin still needs them
extraBuildInputs = [ self.buildPackages.darwin.CF ];
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This probably just works in native compilation

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It does not. pkgsStatic.htop fails without it. (Although that does bring up the question of why extraBuildInputs exists at all.)

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@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ in lib.init bootStages ++ [
# `tryEval` wouldn't catch, wrecking accessing previous stages
# when there is a C compiler and everything should be fine.
then throw "no C compiler provided for this platform"
else if crossSystem.isDarwin
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We might need this to be an option. I think we want there to be a way to also use gcc for cross on Darwin

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That's possible but it would require nixpkgs to support Darwin as a cross target with a non-Darwin build platform, and I don't know if that's the case? I wasn't able to build a cc toolchain for it when I tried, anyway.

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Yeah - that's not supported. But we do want to support building statically on native Darwin gcc. That might not be as useful as I was originally thinking though.

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Looks good for now! The gcc option can be easily added later.

@infinisil infinisil merged commit 4aabac8 into NixOS:master Sep 30, 2020
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