Running Helio in NixOS

[suhr]

I'm trying to use Helio in NixOS. Unlike most other linux distributives, NixOS stores all packages isolated from each other, in paths like /nix/store/5rnfzla9kcx4mj5zdc7nlnv8na1najvg-firefox-3.5.4/. This allows to have a lot of nice things (no dependency hell, rollbacks, reproducible builds, etc).

So I wrote the following derivation for Helio: https://gist.github.com/suhr/1eb9b2d4d9539c130ff8a28e6beb3ba2

It works fine. But there's a problem: in Helio, file dialogs do not open.

[peterrudenko]

JUCE file chooser can't seem to work unless there's either kdialog or zenity executable available. Is there a way to make sure zenity is installed?

[suhr]

Let me try to add the zenity dependency into the derivation...

[suhr]

Yes, this works. I've updated the gist.

Let me keep this issue open for a while so I could report other related issues, if any.

[suhr]

Helio is now in nixpkgs: NixOS/nixpkgs#65238.

[peterrudenko]

Thanks for your help with this :)