pkg-configWithPackages

default.nix

{pkgs ? import ./nix/pkgs.nix {}}:
let
    pkg-configWithPackages = packages: pkgs.stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation {
        name = "pkg-configWithPackages";
        buildInputs = [pkgs.makeWrapper];
        phases = ["installPhase"];
        installPhase = ''
            makeWrapperFlags=()
            for package in ${pkgs.lib.concatMapStringsSep " " (p: "${p}") packages}; do
                makeWrapperFlags+=(--prefix PKG_CONFIG_PATH : $package/lib/pkgconfig)
            done

            mkdir --parents $out/bin
            makeWrapper ${pkgs.pkg-config}/bin/pkg-config $out/bin/pkg-config \
                "''${makeWrapperFlags[@]}"
        '';
    };
in
    [
        pkgs.bash
        pkgs.coreutils
        # etc
        (
            pkg-configWithPackages [
                pkgs.zeromq4
            ]
        )
    ]

usage.bash

nix run -ic pkg-config --libs libzmq