XcodeGen

[sempruijs]

Project description
describe the project a little

XcodeGen is a command line tool written in Swift that generates your Xcode project using your folder structure and a project spec.

Metadata

• homepage URL: https://github.com/yonaskolb/XcodeGen
• source URL:
• license: mit
• platforms: darwin

[Endle]

I'm trying to pack it, but I'm stuck right now. I'll ask in the Matrix channel https://github.com/Endle/nixpkgs/blob/xcodegen/pkgs/by-name/xc/xcodegen/package.nix

[Endle]

Finally, after some hacks my nix file could produce a binary: https://github.com/Endle/nixpkgs/blob/xcodegen/pkgs/by-name/xc/xcodegen/package.nix

Can you have a test?

[Endle]

Special thanks to samasaur!

https://matrix.to/#/!lheuhImcToQZYTQTuI:nixos.org/$axu7E4fIjjGho4uS9mwLlAIuhHJnfK2JgM5PnMv10nc?via=nixos.org&via=matrix.org&via=beeper.com

[Endle]

I've pushed my nix build to NUR: https://github.com/Endle/nur-packages/tree/master/pkgs/xcodegen

[ehllie]

I've pushed my nix build to NUR: https://github.com/Endle/nur-packages/tree/master/pkgs/xcodegen

Why not publish it directly to nixpkgs? That package looks up to nixpkgs standards to me.

[Endle]

Why not publish it directly to nixpkgs? That package looks up to nixpkgs standards to me.

I'd like to push it to nixpkgs, however, there are some concerns.

1. I don't write swift, and I don't know if my build file produces correct binary
2. If this build is broken, I will have no chance to notice it and fix it.
3. Because of 1 and 2, I don't have the ability and the motivation for the commitment to be a long time maintainer for xcodegen.

So if anyone wants to push this to nixpkgs, I'd like to cooperate with them, but I can't do it on my own.

[squirmy]

Hey @Endle , I gave this a shot today but ran into a couple of issues:

1. Your flake doesn't support aarch64-darwin
2. Once I enabled support for it, I ran into this issue: Build failure: swift for aarch64 #295322

Another thing I noticed that other swift derivations:

1. Use swift and swiftpm as nativeBuildInputs
2. Use swiftpm2nix to create a nix file for the deps.

More information on this can be found here.

I was going to make some updates, but the issue i mentioned above with Swift is getting in my way on arm. I also don't have Swift experience, but In the future I'd be happy to test it out on ARM if you've not got access to that.

[Endle]

Hi @squirmy , thank you so much for sharing these information for me.

Your flake doesn't support aarch64-darwin
but In the future I'd be happy to test it out on ARM if you've not got access to that.

Well that's a bit interesting to me, because the only mac I have is on M2, and I have no access to x86 macs :) I assume that declaring platforms = platforms.darwin; at https://github.com/Endle/nur-packages/blob/master/pkgs/xcodegen/default.nix#L59C5-L59C34 should make it work for both aarch64 and x86_64? Please let me know if I'm wrong.

Use swift and swiftpm as nativeBuildInputs
Thank you again for sharing it. It is very helpful to me. Would you like to

1. Copy the code from https://github.com/Endle/nur-packages/blob/master/pkgs/xcodegen/default.nix to your own NUR, or
2. Make a PR to it, or
3. Wait for me to edit my nix file

[squirmy]

Well that's a bit interesting to me, because the only mac I have is on M2, and I have no access to x86 macs :)

Ah! Then we must be consuming your flake differently!

Your flake.nix doesn't include aarch64-darwin so when I try to reference the packages for this system by inputs.endle-nur.packages.aarch64-darwin they don't exist.

I did clone your repo and try it locally with the intent of submitting a PR but I ran into the above issue with the swift build failure. I'll come back and look at this again when that's sorted. There's no hurry :)

[Endle]

Your flake.nix doesn't include aarch64-darwin so when I try to reference the packages for this system by inputs.endle-nur.packages.aarch64-darwin they don't exist.

Thank you so much for catching it! I didn't know that the list of platforms can be configured in flake.nix before your words.

I ran into the above issue with the swift build failure

I guess that the swift build failure would block xcodegen. Thank you for sharing it.

[Samasaur1]

The Swift issues have (mostly) been resolved for now, so I took a shot at this and opened a PR (#367199) adding it to nixpkgs.