nix-shell wrapper for cargo to make cargo builds work on NixOS

nix-shell-for-cargo

#!/bin/sh

# A nix-shell that includes many packages, so that Cargo projects can build on NixOS.

set -eu

packages=(
    pkgconfig
    openssl

    # druid
    cairo
    atk
    gdk-pixbuf
    pango
    gtk3

    # imgui-rs
    xorg.libxcb

    # web-view
    webkitgtk
)

args=()
for p in ${packages[@]}; do
    args+=("-p" "$p")
done

nix-shell "${args[@]}" --run "$(printf '%q ' "$@")"

Usage:

nix-shell-for-cargo cargo build