dfx?

[nomeata]

There is incomplete support for dfx in https://github.com/nomeata/dfx-in-nix, but your project is probably a better place for this. Opening this issue to track progress (or to have a place for people to read why dfx is not part of ic-nix).

[ninegua]

Now supported! You can try

nix-shell https://github.com/ninegua/ic-nix/releases/latest/download/dfx-env.tar.gz

This will enter a nix-shell environment with dfx and other tools to start canister development! It will download pre-built binaries if your platform is supported. Otherwise it will give a nice warning saying you can add --arg force true to build from source!

[nomeata]

Very neat! How exactly did you convince dfx to use the replica binary you built and put on the PATH, instead of the one it usually extracts from its embedded cache?

[ninegua]

dfx actually will find a binary if its path is given in the environment DFX_$name_PATH. See https://github.com/ninegua/ic-nix/blob/main/dfx-env.nix#L74-L77

[nomeata]

Ah, this must be new or I was blind when I tried to nixify dfx.