For a long time, we've had `crossLibcStdenv`, `*Cross` libc attributes,
and `*bsdCross` pre-libc package sets. This was always bad because
having "cross" things is "not declarative": the naming doesn't reflect
what packages *need* but rather how we *provide* something. This is
ugly, and creates needless friction between cross and native building.
Now, almost all of these `*Cross` attributes are gone: just these are
kept:
- Glibc's and Musl's are kept, because those packages are widely used
and I didn't want to risk changing the native builds of those at this
time.
- generic `libcCross`, `theadsCross`, and friends, because these relate
to the convolulted GCC bootstrap which still needs to be redone.
The BSD and obscure Linux or freestnanding libcs have conversely all
been made to use a new `stdenvNoLibc`, which is like the old
`crossLibcStdenv` except:
1. It usable for native and cross alike
2. It named according to what it *is* ("a standard environment without
libc but with a C compiler"), rather than some non-compositional
jargon ("the stdenv used for building libc when cross compiling",
yuck).
I should have done this change long ago, but I was stymied because of
"infinite recursions". The problem was that in too many cases we are
overriding `stdenv` to *remove* things we don't need, and this risks
cyles since those more minimal stdenvs are used to build things in the
more maximal stdenvs.
The solution is to pass `stage.nix` `stdenvNoCC`, so we can override to
*build up* rather than *tear down*. For now, the full `stdenv` is also
passed, so I don't need to change the native bootstraps, but I can see
this changing as we make things more uniform and clean those up.
(adapted from commit 51f1ecaa59)
(adapted from commit 1743662e55)
`sdkVer` conflicts with the old `sdkVer`(now `darwinSdkVersion` but that still uses `sdkVer` if set) used by darwin
This shouldn't be an issue but due to `pkgs/development/interpreters/python/cpython/default.nix`
running `lib.filterAttrs (n: v: ! lib.isDerivation v && n != "passthruFun")` on it's inputs (2 of them are darwin only)
the `throw "Unsupported sdk...` in `pkgs/top-level/darwin-packages.nix` will be triggered.
After this change `pkgsCross.armv7a-android-prebuilt.python3.pythonOnBuildForHost` won't fail with
`error: Unsupported sdk: 33`
Issue was bisected to 3cb23cec23
For a long time, we've had `crossLibcStdenv`, `*Cross` libc attributes,
and `*bsdCross` pre-libc package sets. This was always bad because
having "cross" things is "not declarative": the naming doesn't reflect
what packages *need* but rather how we *provide* something. This is
ugly, and creates needless friction between cross and native building.
Now, almost all of these `*Cross` attributes are gone: just these are
kept:
- Glibc's and Musl's are kept, because those packages are widely used
and I didn't want to risk changing the native builds of those at this
time.
- generic `libcCross`, `theadsCross`, and friends, because these relate
to the convolulted GCC bootstrap which still needs to be redone.
The BSD and obscure Linux or freestnanding libcs have conversely all
been made to use a new `stdenvNoLibc`, which is like the old
`crossLibcStdenv` except:
1. It usable for native and cross alike
2. It named according to what it *is* ("a standard environment without
libc but with a C compiler"), rather than some non-compositional
jargon ("the stdenv used for building libc when cross compiling",
yuck).
I should have done this change long ago, but I was stymied because of
"infinite recursions". The problem was that in too many cases we are
overriding `stdenv` to *remove* things we don't need, and this risks
cyles since those more minimal stdenvs are used to build things in the
more maximal stdenvs.
The solution is to pass `stage.nix` `stdenvNoCC`, so we can override to
*build up* rather than *tear down*. For now, the full `stdenv` is also
passed, so I don't need to change the native bootstraps, but I can see
this changing as we make things more uniform and clean those up.
Finally, the BSDs also had to be cleaned up, since they have a few
pre-libc dependencies, demanding a systematic approach. I realized what
rhelmot did in 61202561d9 (specify what
packages just need `stdenvNoLibc`) is definitely the right approach for
this, and adjusted NetBSD and OpenBSD to likewise use it.
Example with `clangUseLLVM` which is the default when using `useLLVM`
```nix
config.replaceCrossStdenv = { buildPackages, baseStdenv }:
if baseStdenv.targetPlatform.useLLVM or false
then (buildPackages.stdenvAdapters.overrideCC baseStdenv buildPackages.llvmPackages_16.clangUseLLVM)
else baseStdenv;
```
The conditional necessary, otherwise the other sets(such as `pkgsCross.aarch64-multiplatform.llvmPackages`)
without `useLLVM` will use the stdenv without the necessary conditions to avoid infinite
recursion because of [targetLlvmLibraries](644b234e1c/pkgs/development/compilers/llvm/16/default.nix (L208))
usage.
[`replaceStdenv` is not used when cross-compiling](d77bda728d/pkgs/stdenv/cross/default.nix (L12-L13))
`replaceStdenv` uses an additional stage to replace the stdenv to avoid
infinite recursion and other issues but that should not be necessary for cross.
Since 97c43828fb the `file` package has
been part of stdenv, and no longer needs to be listed explicitly as a
build input. Let's remove the platform-specific inclusion for mingw64
as suggested by @mehmooda:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/168413#issuecomment-1147370500
I traced the line removed by this commit through the `git blame`; it
was initially added in this commit (and then shuffled around a few
dozen times by refactorings):
8b292a1b35
The commit message indicates that `libpng-1.6.20` was current at the
time. Although there are [libpng
archives](https://github.com/glennrp/libpng) available in git form,
the older versions don't have their autoconfery vendored in, so I
can't link to them. Fortunately the relevant bit hasn't changed since
then:
a37d483651/configure (L5575)
```
mingw* | pw32*)
# Base MSYS/MinGW do not provide the 'file' command needed by
# func_win32_libid shell function, so use a weaker test based on 'objdump',
# unless we find 'file', for example because we are cross-compiling.
if ( file / ) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
lt_cv_deplibs_check_method='file_magic ^x86 archive import|^x86 DLL'
lt_cv_file_magic_cmd='func_win32_libid'
else
# Keep this pattern in sync with the one in func_win32_libid.
lt_cv_deplibs_check_method='file_magic file format (pei*-i386(.*architecture: i386)?|pe-arm-wince|pe-x86-64)'
lt_cv_file_magic_cmd='$OBJDUMP -f'
fi
;;
```
llvmPackages_*.clang should check the default compiler for the package
set it is targeting (targetPackages.stdenv.cc) instead of the compiler
that has been used to build it (stdenv.cc) in order to get some sense of
whether to use libc++ or libstdc++.
Since we are now inspecting targetPackages in the llvmPackages.clang
attribute, we need to avoid using it in the cross stdenv — which just
forces us to explicitly request libcxxClang for darwin instead of
relying on the clang attribute to pick it for us.
We also need to do something similar for targetPackages.stdenv.cc: Here
the llvmPackages.clang logic would work as we want (inspect
targetPackages.stdenv.cc and if it doesn't exist, make the choice based
on stdenv.cc), but it gets locked in a cycle with the previous package.
We can easily break this, however: We know that the previous set had
clang and the next one doesn't exist, so we'd choose libcxxClang any day
of the week.
This will begin the process of breaking up the `useLLVM` monolith. That
is good in general, but I hope will be good for NetBSD and Darwin in
particular.
Co-authored-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
Update gnu-config (config.sub, config.guess) to suport the Genode
platform and apply the updateAutotoolsGnuConfigScriptsHook to Genode
cross-compilation.
Adds pkgsCross.wasm32 and pkgsCross.wasm64. Use it to build Nixpkgs
with a WebAssembly toolchain.
stdenv/cross: use static overlay on isWasm
isWasm doesn’t make sense dynamically linked.
this adds libc++ to the LLVM cross, giving us access to the full
Nixpkgs set. This requires 4 stages of wrapped compilers:
- Clang with no libraries
- Clang with just compiler-rt
- Clang with Libc, and compiler-rt
- Clang with Libc++, Libc, and compiler-rt
New android ndk (18) now uses clang. We were going through the wrapper
that are provided. This lead to surprising errors when building.
Ideally we could use the llvm linker as well, but this leads to errors
as many packages don’t support the llvm linker.
You can build (partially) with LLVM toolchain using the useLLVM flag.
This works like so:
nix-build -A hello --arg crossSystem '{ system =
"aarch64-unknown-linux-musl"; useLLVM = true }'
also don’t separate debug info in lldClang
It doesn’t work currently with that setup hook. Missing build-id?
crossOverlays only apply to the packages being built, not the build
packages. It is useful when you don’t care what is used to build your
packages, just what is being built. The idea relies heavily on the
cross compiling infrastructure. Using this implies that we need to
create a cross stdenv.
/cc @Ericson2314
PR was https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/46857
This line broke MacOS cross compilation. paxctl cannot be built on
macOS. Maybe it can be fixed, but no reason to break things
unnecessarily.
Regardless, you definitely need to be more careful about backporting.
I think it’s fine to move fast and break things on master but
with release-18.09 we should be more careful. Something like more
automated testing for cross compilation would also be
helpful (hopefully even making it block).
(cherry picked from commit f9c4075873)
It wasn’t exactly clear which NDK you were using previously. This adds
an attribute to system that handles what version of the NDK we should
use when building things.
/cc @Ericson2314
