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A wrapper tool for nix OpenGL application [maintainer=@guibou]

9 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 1 story, 8 comments · first 2017-10-15 · latest 2025-04-03

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  1. …Nix executable to allow it to link patched versions of the host's own userspace GL libraries. [1]: https://github.com/nix-community/nixGL [2]: https://github.com/numtide/nix-gl-host
    comment by mikepurvis · 2025-04-03 · in Dagger: A shell for the container age
  2. nixGL is also likely required on non-NixOS Linux distros. https://github.com/nix-community/nixGL
    comment by soraminazuki · 2024-12-27 · in Ghostty 1.0
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    Ask HN: Are there wrapper/runner programs that encrypt writes and decrypt reads?
    story by wesamco · 2024-04-23 · 10 comments
  4. …is a good use case for installing Nix ( https://www.nixos.org ). Unfortunately, you might also need https://github.com/guibou/nixGL to run graphical apps under Nix. It's a shell script to use the correct OpenGL library.
    comment by ilyagr · 2023-09-02 · in Calibre replacement considerations (2019)
  5. …integrated. Also if you only have few apps that require it, then the nixGL flake is not bad. https://github.com/guibou/nixGL
    comment by viraptor · 2022-12-25 · in Setting up my new laptop: Nix style
  6. Yes! Although not for CUDA. I used opencl. nixgl helped here: https://github.com/guibou/nixGL . CUDA should be even simpler since you just add the CUDA .so paths to the RPATH. Allthough I might be missing something. Custom libc might be a…
    comment by rowanG077 · 2022-10-05 · in Nix Team Creation
  7. …it just doesn't know how to find the driver on non NixOS distros by default, can fix it with this: https://github.com/guibou/nixGL
    comment by neonfuz · 2021-06-12 · in Guix: Unifying provisioning, deployment, and management in the age of containers
  8. …one has to specify them. It was quite a time I ran nix on a non-nixos distro but there is this tool https://github.com/guibou/nixGL that meant to solve the issue of graphical programs.
    comment by kaba0 · 2021-06-02 · in NixOS 21.05
  9. …programs on non-NixOS machines: * https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9415#issuecomment-30... * https://github.com/guibou/nixGL * https://github.com/deepfire/nix-install-vendor-gl
    comment by nh2 · 2017-10-15 · in What is Nix and why you should try it