Package request: Veloren on Darwin

[ethancedwards8]

Project description

Veloren is already packaged for nixpkgs but only with Linux support. I would love it if someone made the package able to run on Darwin. The project has official support for MacOS, its just a matter of getting it in nixpkgs.

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[TomaSajt]

For the record, I attempted to build it on darwin, however the package build is currently encountering this issue on all platforms.

[rnhmjoj]

Supporting darwin is just a matter of figuring out which runtime libraries have to be added to the wrapper.
The problem is that upstream is very stubborn on using shiny unstable features that break every couple of months.

[crabm4n]

however the package build is currently encountering this issue on all platforms.

Veloren doesn't support building on the latest rust nightly (and likely wont for a while, because of how often things break there), instead we use a pinned nightly toolchain which is currently 2024-07-07 (also found in the rust-toolchain at the root of the veloren repository). I'm not familiar with the nix packaging system at all so this might not help, but I thought I'd add it anyways ;)

@TomaSajt

[ethancedwards8]

Considering running Veloren directly is technically unsupported upstream, could we just get Airshipper to build on darwin?

[TomaSajt]

Veloren doesn't support building on the latest rust nightly (and likely wont for a while, because of how often things break there), instead we use a pinned nightly toolchain which is currently 2024-07-07 (also found in the rust-toolchain at the root of the veloren repository). I'm not familiar with the nix packaging system at all so this might not help, but I thought I'd add it anyways ;)

@TomaSajt

Unfortunate... thanks for the info
AFAIK nixpkgs itself only provides one version of rust, but there are external nix-based projects packaging different versions, so maybe some external project can package veloren using those versions.

Considering running Veloren directly is technically unsupported upstream, could we just get Airshipper to build on darwin?

It might be possible, though I'm unfamiliar with how darwin loads libraries exactly. (we can't use the patchelf method, like it is currently being done on linux)