nix-shell requirements to compile pale-module.so #8

karthink commented 2026年02月02日 06:45:02 +01:00

Thank you for taking the initiative on bringing better graphics support to Emacs!

I wanted to try out pale, and noticed that the provided default.nix does not supply the dependencies needed to compile the module.

The file lists

pkgs.mkShell {
 packages =
 [ pkgs.mesa-gl-headers pkgs.gnumake pkgs.clang-tools pkgs.gcc pkgs.gdb ];
}

but on my AMD ryzen machine with integrated graphics I had to use

pkgs.mkShell {
 packages =
 [ pkgs.libglvnd pkgs.gnumake pkgs.clang-tools pkgs.gcc pkgs.gdb ];
}

i.e. replace mesa-gl-headers with libglvnd. Without this compilation failed with the message that the EGL headers couldn't be found.

I'm not sure about why mesa-gl-headers did not suffice, but I'm reporting it here in case this information is useful.

Thank you for taking the initiative on bringing better graphics support to Emacs! I wanted to try out pale, and noticed that the provided default.nix does not supply the dependencies needed to compile the module. The file lists ```nix pkgs.mkShell { packages = [ pkgs.mesa-gl-headers pkgs.gnumake pkgs.clang-tools pkgs.gcc pkgs.gdb ]; } ``` but on my AMD ryzen machine with integrated graphics I had to use ```nix pkgs.mkShell { packages = [ pkgs.libglvnd pkgs.gnumake pkgs.clang-tools pkgs.gcc pkgs.gdb ]; } ``` i.e. replace `mesa-gl-headers` with `libglvnd`. Without this compilation failed with the message that the EGL headers couldn't be found. I'm not sure about why `mesa-gl-headers` did not suffice, but I'm reporting it here in case this information is useful.

divyaranjan commented 2026年02月02日 09:20:55 +01:00

Hello @karthink!

Since I am not a regular Nix user here, I'll defer to @appetrosyan.

Hello @karthink! Since I am not a regular Nix user here, I'll defer to @appetrosyan.

appetrosyan commented 2026年02月02日 13:37:23 +01:00

@karthink

I was not aware we had a nix expression until yesterday. Will bump it up in priority in my to-do list.

@karthink I was not aware we had a nix expression until yesterday. Will bump it up in priority in my to-do list.

appetrosyan commented 2026年03月18日 11:54:35 +01:00

@karthink Try it now.

@karthink Try it now.