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Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS [maintainer=@Mic92]

11 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 2 stories, 9 comments · first 2021-06-21 · latest 2026-03-23

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  1. …is approximately zero. You cant go to a website and download a binary and just run it You can: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-ld
    comment by rounce · 2026-03-23 · in Why I love NixOS
  2. …linking. True. In my case I just enabled nix-ld[0,1] and now everything works flawlessly. [0]: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-ld [1]: https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Nix-ld
    comment by codethief · 2025-05-26 · in I think it's time to give Nix a chance
  3. …`steam-run` is very useful for generally running foreign binaries on NixOS. There's also `nix-ld`: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-ld
    comment by _jackdk_ · 2025-02-11 · in NixOS and Portable Executables
  4. …a decent workaround for unpatched binaries, in case you haven't heard of these tools yet. [1] https://github.com/nix-community/nix-ld [2] https://github.com/Mic92/envfs The blog post linked by [1] is quite good.
    comment by Zefiroj · 2024-12-21 · in Grayjay Desktop App
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    Nix-ld – Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS
    story by manx · 2024-12-10 · 0 comments
  6. …[2] https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/integration/pytorch/ [3] https://github.com/nix-community/nix-ld
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    Nix-ld: Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS
    story by todsacerdoti · 2023-12-07 · 0 comments
  8. or https://github.com/Mic92/nix-ld or a FHS. There are many projects to help with this.
    comment by SuperSandro2000 · 2022-12-01 · in NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon”
  9. you can also use https://github.com/Mic92/nix-ld or build a fhs.
    comment by SuperSandro2000 · 2022-12-01 · in NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon”
  10. …or BeOS-like X11 WM/DE specifically for NixOS but unfortunately I lack the time/motivation. [1] https://github.com/Mic92/nix-ld
    comment by dd_ · 2022-09-03 · in We want to make Nix better
  11. Did you try https://github.com/Mic92/nix-ld or https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/unstable/#setup-hook-autopa... ?