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Building with a flake on NixOS

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
15/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
linux, zig
Domain
build-system

Research direction

The failure comes from zig build-exe on NixOS when it cannot find the dynamic library atk-1.0 under the Dawn dependency's cache path. Start with the build configuration that pulls in the GPU dependency and the flake's dev shell, to see which GTK/ATK libraries it exposes. Done would mean the build completes on NixOS or the missing-library requirement is documented with a working setup. The thread has three comments and no answer, so expect to need maintainer input.

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Description

I've used Cloudef/mach-flake to set up an env to build pixi, and I get this error when trying to build:

run
└─ run pixi
   └─ zig build-exe pixi Debug native failure
error: error: unable to find Dynamic system library 'atk-1.0' using strategy 'paths_first'. searched paths:
  /home/user/build/pixi/zig-cache/mach/gpu-dawn/release-cdd4a1a/x86_64-linux-gnu/release-fast/libatk-1.0.so

Anyone have any experience here? Thanks so much

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