NixOS support

[arjunv27]

Problem

Unable to use Prisma on NixOS, receiving "Error: Get config" due to binaryTargets, documentation provides no options for NixOS

Solution

Develop with Prisma successfully on NixOS

[husseinraoouf]

@pantharshit00
I have tried and still the same error
the fetch binaries script downloads the debian-openssl-1.1.x binaries I think because it couldn't detect NixOS

also, I don't think NixOS is based on alpine ( but I am not sure )

[pantharshit00]

I did some research on nix and it is whole config based. You will need to add nodejs to your nix config in order to install it.

See: https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-package-management and maybe go through the manual otherwise, I will mail you a vmdk with a installation

[Jolg42]

Looks like this worked in the NixOS VirtualBox nix-shell -p nodejs I can now reproduce the error 🎊

[Jolg42]

So it will now output a warning message saying that pre-compiled binaries are not available for nixos, so it's easier to understand what's happening here.

We do not have plan to provide pre-compiled binaries for NixOS for now.

See these 2 issues for more info about how to compile the binaries:
https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/2146
https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/1840

[husseinraoouf]

@Jolg42
that is better than the old error message for sure

I have managed to get the CLI working by compiling the rust binaries from source and copying them to the package folder in node_modules

I have also packaged the cli as nix package for anyone else wanting to use Prisma in NixOS
at https://gitlab.com/husseinraoouf/nur-repository you can use it by directly importing my git repo or wait till it is in NUR Repos 😃 ( update it is in NUR Repos now )

I think this issue could be closed now and maybe update the documentation about the support of NixOS

[Jolg42]

Awesome! I will keep this open for now as it's not an official support and no decision was taken yet on this.

Thanks for posting your nix package it will probably be useful for other people 👍

[husseinraoouf]

@Jolg42
I can't do prisma generate after updating to Beta.6 it shows this error

Error: Unknown binaryTargets nixos-openssl-1.1.x

I think because the cli now can recognize NixOS, the binary target became nixos-openssl-1.1.x instead of the default fallback debian-openssl-1.1.x

I think it could be solved by adding nixos-openssl-1.1.x to the possible values of binaryTargets

[Jolg42]

@husseinraoouf Indeed!
I just fixed that in the latest alpha, you can try it like this npx @prisma/cli@2.0.0-alpha.1258

Let me know if this solves it or not.

[husseinraoouf]

Thank you it works now 🎉

[Jolg42]

Closing this was unblocked.

Tracking providing pre-built binaries in #3026