Re: Suggestion for a guix shell feature.

[Apoorv via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>]

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Tried to use to antioxydant build system, I cannot seem to add it as a channel but was able to clone the repo and authenticate it manually..  then  guix build -L . -f antioxidant-packages.scm fails to run with error,
ice-9/eval.scm:223:20: In procedure proc:
error: rust-sequoia-ipc-0.26: unbound variable
hint: Did you forget a `use-modules' form?

I think I am going to stick to adding libs to LD_LIBRARY_PATH manually as it works even though I know you said its wrong.
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Jan 3, 2024, 17:57 by maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com:

> Hi,
>
> Apoorv <apoorvs@tuta.io> writes:
>
>> OK, it was my bad I had an older copy of guix.scm file I was passing
>> that, it didn't have cargo-build-system. But now I'm getting so many
>> other errors related to cargo deps missing or version mismatch, I
>> tried adding those deps spent like 1-2 hours but something dep was
>> still missing or version mismatch, finally I gave up. I'm not sure how
>> many deps I have to add like this.. this is getting way to complicated
>> then it needs to be.
>>
>
> cargo/rust is poorly integrated in Guix, as there's some impedance
> mismatch between package handling by Guix and Cargo itself, which would
> rather take care of it.
>
> I'd expect most Rust developpers using Guix only do so to provide
> Rust/Cargo, and let Cargo take care of the rest.  Otherwise you'd need
> to replicate the pain the cargo-build-system goes through to make it
> work.
>
> A more future-proof approach if you'd like to improve Rust integration
> into Guix would be to continue integrating the 'antioxydant' build
> system effort started by Maxime Devos [0], which doesn't rely on Cargo
> to build Rust crates (and supports dynamic linking of Rust libraries, I
> think?).
>
> [0]  https://notabug.org/maximed/cargoless-rust-experiments
>
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Maxim
>


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