tic-80 building on nix

shell.nix

{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }:
pkgs.mkShell {
	# inputsFrom = with pkgs; [ pkgconfig autoconf automake gnumake ];
	buildInputs = with pkgs; [
		gcc
		pkgconfig
		autoconf
		automake
		libtool
		pcre
		gnumake
		SDL2
		SDL2_gfx
		SDL_image
		SDL2_ttf
		SDL2_mixer
		harfbuzz
		curl
		gtk3
		gtk3-x11
		cmake
		cmakeCurses
		elementary-cmake-modules
		extra-cmake-modules
		libglvnd
		mesa_glu
		mesa_glu
		freeglut
		alsaLib
	];
}

This doesn't seem to work for v1.0. While the build finishes when running it the UI window doesn't open and it instead shows up in the terminal but it is not responsive. Issue nesbox/TIC-80#1922

https://github.com/winny-/nixos-configs/blob/master/package-overrides/tic-80/default.nix

I'm trying to build a native TIC-80 package myself. @jjwatt I tried the original shell.nix and it failed for me during the make -j4 step. I'm getting an 'Error 2' which I'm still trying to diagnose, very cryptic. I also tried nix-build with @winny- 's default.nix but that errored out as well. I'm an extreme Nix noob so any help with this is appreciated. I'm on 23.11

The precise error I got was

AR    build/host/lib/libmruby_core.a
ar: creating /home/daniel/src/misc/TIC-80/vendor/mruby/build/host/lib/libmruby_core.a
LD    build/host/bin/mrbc
/nix/store/1fn92b0783crypjcxvdv6ycmvi27by0j-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: /home/daniel/src/misc/TIC-80/vendor/mruby/build/host/lib/libmruby_core.a(codegen.o): undefined reference to symbol '__ctype_tolower_loc@@GLIBC_2.3'
/nix/store/1fn92b0783crypjcxvdv6ycmvi27by0j-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: /nix/store/qn3ggz5sf3hkjs2c797xf7nan3amdxmp-glibc-2.38-27/lib/libc.so.6: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line
rake aborted!
Command failed with status (1): [ld  -o "/home/daniel/src/misc/TIC-80/vendo...]
/home/daniel/src/misc/TIC-80/vendor/mruby/lib/mruby/build/command.rb:37:in `_run'
/home/daniel/src/misc/TIC-80/vendor/mruby/lib/mruby/build/command.rb:217:in `run'
/home/daniel/src/misc/TIC-80/vendor/mruby/mrbgems/mruby-bin-mrbc/mrbgem.rake:11:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
Tasks: TOP => all => gensym => /home/daniel/src/misc/TIC-80/vendor/mruby/build/target/presym => /home/daniel/src/misc/TIC-80/vendor/mruby/build/target/mrblib/mrblib.pi => /home/daniel/src/misc/TIC-80/vendor/mruby/build/target/mrblib/mrblib.c => /home/daniel/src/misc/TIC-80/vendor/mruby/build/host/bin/mrbc
(See full trace by running task with --trace)
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/mruby_vendor.dir/build.make:86: mruby_vendor-prefix/src/mruby_vendor-stamp/mruby_vendor-build] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:324: CMakeFiles/mruby_vendor.dir/all] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

So I think it's linking to the wrong libc, going off the line /nix/store/1fn92b0783crypjcxvdv6ycmvi27by0j-binutils-2.40/bin/ld: /home/daniel/src/misc/TIC-80/vendor/mruby/build/host/lib/libmruby_core.a(codegen.o): undefined reference to symbol '__ctype_tolower_loc@@GLIBC_2.3'.

Hi there, I just tested my linked TIC-80 derivation using nix-build -E 'with import <nixpkgs> {}; callPackage ./default.nix {}' and it completed successfully. Let's see if we can figure it out! I'm using 23.11 as well. Are you trying to build a local copy? Might be best to take one of the working derivations, then change the src to point to your path. This way it'll build the same way as if pulling from upstream.

P.S. Feel free to take my work and contribute it to nixpkgs.

Thanks for preparing the package, @winny-! I made a PR to nixpkgs here: NixOS/nixpkgs#291129