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Need a way to specify locally-provided libraries #77
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One option would be for WDYT @soleera ? |
This approach would mean that the auto selection of libraries when there is only one candidate would not work anymore (we would always have at least 2 candidates, the library itself and |
I was thinking about this feature and want to understand what is the value of it? Does Zoom does not work when loaded with the libs from Because this use cases seems really niche and only usable for non-NixOS systems it looks like, while |
Not completely related, but I just added a new |
Some binaries come packaged with their own library files, however it doesn't look like there's any way to tell nix-alien not to treat these as external dependencies.
As an example, nix-ld includes a script for the Linux Zoom client . The client comes with its own Qt5 libraries which didn't need to be added to the nix-ld script, however nix-alien will still pick these up as external dependencies and will try to find a suitable candidate regardless.
It would be great if we had a way to provide a
PATH
-like string fornix-alien
to check first before it begins searching for external libraries (or at least to add as another option to the list of candidates).The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: