Is there a clean way to solve project names clash?

Oh... I see what is going on... never realized there was a grip already. I feel like grip the gnome application has likely existed much longer than grip the search+indexing tool. I guess you should rename your app? 🤷‍♂️

ping @jtojnar as a gnome expert and all around great person 😄

I would suggest choosing grip-search or gripgen attribute for this package. Then remove the old abandoned package. And only rename this package after some cycles.

It is not my application :) I just found it useful in my job. Named attribute to grip-search. Probably no need to remove existing grip - at most if anyone use both there will be clash in names (grip), but I do not think too many people will want to use grip-search and grip together.

@aanderse Hi, please see changes.

Hi, is there anything else needed to to to get this merged?

@JohnAZoidberg happy to be left out,
My Cmake skills are not that great,I'd rather focus on stuff I know well.

I tested crosscompile when I first submitted this merge request, but trying it now (with updated nixpkgs) leads to:

[1] milan@nixos> nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A pkgsCross.mingwW64.meson                                                   /etc/nixos/nixpkgs
warning: Nix search path entry '/etc/nixos/overlay' does not exist, ignoring
error: attribute 'targetPlatform' missing, at /etc/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/meson/default.nix:70:17
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)

I submitted this as bug #73420

I tested crosscompile when I first submitted this merge request, but trying it now (with updated nixpkgs) leads to:

[1] milan@nixos> nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A pkgsCross.mingwW64.meson                                                   /etc/nixos/nixpkgs
warning: Nix search path entry '/etc/nixos/overlay' does not exist, ignoring
error: attribute 'targetPlatform' missing, at /etc/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/meson/default.nix:70:17
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)

I submitted this as bug #73420

Funny, it works, I tried to cross compile grip (the gui application) which failed. grip-search works.
See originaly it was named grip (and original grip removed), then I renamed to grip-search :D

Works fine on NixOS and I'm happy with the derivation.

When I build it for Windows with: nix-build -A pkgsCross.mingwW64.grip-search, copy result/bin/* to Windows 10 and run it, this happens:

Did you perform other steps?

Oh, I tested that crosscompilation when I first created this merge request.
This must be dependency created by #73195 . Fun thing is that I modified grip on master to remove dependency on multithreading and other C++11 things that the #73195 enabled in Nix when crosscompiling. Guess you need to install that missing library into system, it is not dll created by grip.

Or is it problem of #73195 that it doesn't provide all in runtime required libraries in resulting output?

@tex We have always lacked a sufficiently good automated mechanism for copying all of the required DLLs into the bin/ directory. But if you build nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A pkgsCross.mingwW64.threadsCross you can get the DLL and copy it yourself.