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Bundle Nix derivations to run anywhere! [maintainer=@matthewbauer, @Artturin]
14 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 3 stories, 11 comments · first 2018-05-16 · latest 2026-01-26
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…of and can think of off the top of my head are: 1. appimage https://appimage.org/ 2. nix-bundle https://github.com/nix-community/nix-bundle 3. guix via guix pack 4. A small collection of random small projects hardly anyone uses for docker…
comment by TheDong · 2026-01-26 · in The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen -
…comment, there are ways to bundle nix derivations into standalone run-on-any-linux binaries: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-bundle
comment by skulk · 2025-01-23 · in Bunster: Compile bash scripts to self contained executables -
There is nix-bundle (which I admittedly have never had a reason to use) https://github.com/nix-community/nix-bundle
comment by skulk · 2025-01-23 · in Bunster: Compile bash scripts to self contained executables -
There's an older attempt at a universal Nix bundler here: https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle The flake schema has a "bundler" output that can point to an executable like this to bundle a flake's outputs for any supported target.…
comment by tadfisher · 2024-03-10 · in Kākāpō – A web bundler for Nix strings with context -
…also lets you create Docker images, AppImages, and images/executables in a few other formats. -- 1: https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle 2: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/new-cli/ni...
comment by pxc · 2024-03-07 · in Show HN: dockerc – Docker image to static executable "compiler" -
…https://justine.lol/ape.html , https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-pack.... or https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle do make it approachable to "bundle" a lot of software down to libc.
comment by phaer · 2023-09-11 · in “Make” as a static site generator (2022) -
…this project to generate docker images, and appImage images, as basically afterthoughts. (See e.g. https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle .) Nix flake support would also provide a perfectly reproducible build environment, which can…
comment by 1attice · 2023-07-13 · in Thunderbird 115 “Supernova” -
…bundle`² to generate an all-in-one binary that you can run without installing Nix on the target. 1: https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle 2: https://github.com/NixOS/bundlers
comment by pxc · 2023-03-15 · in Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know -
…focused on "distribute from this host with nix, to this other host with nix". Though, here is e.g. https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle , which is supported as an experimental command in nix 2.4.
comment by rgoulter · 2021-11-23 · in Flatpak Is Not the Future -
…For example some things that I found accidentally: * https://github.com/nix-community/poetry2nix * https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle * https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os Unfortunately those side projects often have even worse…
comment by takeda · 2021-06-02 · in NixOS 21.05 -
Nix has a very similar tool called nix-bundle[1]. [1]: https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle
comment by matthewbauer · 2018-05-16 · in Tarballs, the ultimate container image format