Development environment with nix-shell: Difference between revisions
imported>Amanjeev m Some grammatical fixes and sentence formations |
imported>Ilmu m Added an example of how to load a local expression (not in pkgs namespace) |
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To be sure that the tools installed on your system will not interfere with the dependencies that you've defined in the shell you can use the <code>--pure</code> option. | To be sure that the tools installed on your system will not interfere with the dependencies that you've defined in the shell you can use the <code>--pure</code> option. | ||
If you'd like to load a local nix expression into a shell you can do it by modifying the earlier example a little bit: | |||
<syntaxHighlight lang=nix> | |||
{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }: | |||
pkgs.mkShell { | |||
buildInputs = [ | |||
(import ./my-expression.nix { inherit pkgs; }) | |||
]; | |||
} | |||
</syntaxHighlight> | |||
== Using Direnv == | == Using Direnv == | ||