bug#75237: Packaging ghostty terminal

bug#75237: Packaging ghostty terminal

[boogs via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

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Hi,
I'm looking to package the ghostty terminal (https://ghostty.org/docs/install/build) but I ran into an issue with the zig build system pertaining to the dependencies?

I've attached the package definition including the error output below. I would appreciate some pointers here please.


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(define-module (boogs packages)
  #:use-module (guix build-system zig)
  #:use-module (guix download)
  #:use-module (guix git-download)
  #:use-module (guix licenses)
  #:use-module (guix packages)
  #:use-module (gnu packages glib)
  #:use-module (gnu packages zig-xyz)
  #:use-module (gnu packages gnome)
  #:use-module (gnu packages gtk)
  #:use-module (gnu packages pkg-config)
  #:use-module (gnu packages zig)
  #:use-module (srfi srfi-1))

(define-public ghostty
  (let* ((version "1.0.0")
         (commit (string-append "v" version)))
    (package
      (name "ghostty")
      (version version)
      (source
       (origin
         (method git-fetch)
         (uri (git-reference
               (url "https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty.git")
               (commit commit)))
         (file-name (git-file-name name version))
         (sha256
          (base32
           "0cs1n7qddy2487hbw72v0h23ybdmp25cag00q46pk0czi5kkawh0"))))
      (build-system zig-build-system)
      (arguments
       (list #:zig zig-0.13
             #:install-source? #f))
      (native-inputs
       (list gtk
             libadwaita
             pkg-config
             zig))
      (home-page "https://www.ghossty.org/")
      (synopsis "Fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal
  emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.")
      (description
       "Ghostty is a terminal emulator that differentiates itself by
  being fast, feature-rich, and native. While there are many excellent
  terminal emulators available, they all force you to choose between
  speed, features, or native UIs. Ghostty provides all three.")
      (license expat))))

ghostty

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bug#75237: Packaging ghostty terminal

[Murilo via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

Hi, sadly its not an easy task as you might be expecting it to be.

It vendors a lot of dependencies in the repository and recursive dependency
replacing with zig fetch isn't quite there yet so we have to do some more work,
create a cache and vendor it with --system. I don't know if this is the best
approach since I never touched anything zig, but it seems to be the easiest from
my research.

Fortunately I've already went through the trouble and packaged it on my channel
a couple days ago so you can use it right away :)

Feel free to take a look at my package definition [0] or use my channel [1]. I
plan to upstream it here once holidays are over and I have some free time, whats
left to do is looking at the vendored sources one by one to ensure everything is
free and there are no nasty pre-built stuff inside the sources, and see if any
of it can be made into a proper guix package so we can use it as normal inputs.
Feel free to help with those too if you want to, the more help the merrier :)

[0] https://codeberg.org/look/saayix/src/branch/entropy/saayix/packages/terminals.scm
[1] https://codeberg.org/look/saayix

bug#75237: Packaging ghostty terminal

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