Choose whether you'd like #40901 or this. I'd personally prefer #40901, but I don't know much about your Mac users.

Software being included into Nixpkgs just means someone uses it, not an endorsement of any sort. Maybe we should mark it as alpha-quality software in the description? Merging this on behalf of @kirelagin who added wireguard-go to tree in the first place.

It's not about this being alpha quality. It's about this not being meant for Linux. No need to change the description.

I thought that wireguard-go is used in Android as userspace fallback, so that means it should build on Linux? (This package was introduced by a Darwin user.)

We do freaky things to this on Android, and it's not built from this source alone. This is not meant to be packaged in Linux distributions. The current makefile even bails if you try.

OK, thanks for explanation.

So building it on darwin is okay? Or should we mark this as broken, too?

Darwin is fine (here's the formula that I wrote for Homebrew). The next version will also support FreeBSD, if Nix runs on that.

By the way, as a matter of dependencies, wireguard-tools should have dependencies now depending on the platform. It should depend on the wireguard module package on Linux and the wireguard-go package on Darwin.

Based on your comment, "this package was introduced by a Darwin user," I added instructions to https://www.wireguard.com/install about nixOS on darwin. Could you let me know if those look correct?

Well, there seems to be some work going on for netbsd by @matthewbauer (but no idea if it runs or not).

@zx2c4 do you want to add yourself as maintainer for wireguard, wireguard-go and wireguard-tools? In that way, you should get notified if PRs touch these, or if there are breakages on the hydra builds :-)

I'm already a maintainer on the first and last of those, but not on wireguard-go; nobody even CCd me that it was being added. So sure, I'll send a PR and add myself.

Could you let me know if those look correct?

No, this would only work for NixOS system-wide config, not for Nix on Darwin. It should be:

$ nix-env -iA nixpkgs.wireguard-go nixpkgs.wireguard-tools

That said, please add just this and I'll fix the package right away (i.e. by adding missing dependency):

$ nix-env -iA nixpkgs.wireguard-tools

Thanks, fixed the webpage.

Also should be "Nix on Darwin" if we'd want to start nitpicking :)

Any progress on the NetBSD port?

@krytarowski So it's more of a port of NetBSD userland to Nix. Certain command line tools like getent and getconf can be compiled to work on any Nix platform with the help of nbcompat.

Job: https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/trunk/netbsd.getent.x86_64-linux

The main use case right now is when you want to use Musl as your libc (glibc provides getent & getconf on Linux systems currently). Eventually I want to work towards building the whole NetBSD kernel & use it as a drop-in for a NixOS system kind of like how GNU/kfreebsd works. This is a ways off though.

As far as ports of Nix to NetBSD, you can most likely use it right now with the "native" stdenv: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/stdenv/native/default.nix. It would be nice to have a "pure" stdenv for NetBSD but I haven't looked into it yet.