nix-bundle-darwin

A darwin-compatible alternative to nix-bundle.

Usage

Usage: nix-bundle-darwin [OPTIONS] [INSTALLABLES]... [-- <BUILD_ARGS>...]

Arguments:
  [INSTALLABLES]...  What to bundle. Installables that resolve to derivations are built (or substituted if possible). Store path installables are substituted
  [BUILD_ARGS]...    Additional arguments to pass to `nix build`

Options:
  -f, --file <FILE>  Interpret installables as attribute paths of the Nix expression stored in <FILE>
  -p, --programs     Interpret installables as nixpkgs programs, equivalent to `--file <nixpkgs>`
      --force        Overwrite existing bundles
  -s, --sign         Selfsign the resulting application bundles
  -h, --help         Print help
  -V, --version      Print version

Example: nix-bundle-darwin nixpkgs#zed-editor

Confirmed working

• zed-editor (Rust)
• teeworlds (C, SDL)
• gg-jj (Tauri)

Not yet working

• Any Electron app (vscodium, vesktop, ...)
• Anything relying on Nix store paths besides symlinks and shared libraries

License

EUPL-1.2-or-later

Differences to nix-bundle-macos

• Written in Rust instead of shell scripts
• Does not require sudo
• Compatible with flakes
• Shallow copies dependencies from Nix store for smaller bundle size – nix-bundle-macos copies whole store directories based on a nix-store query, resulting in huge bundles
• Unrestricted app location – nix-bundle-macos requires apps to be in /Applications/
• Supports codesigning (currently only selfsign)