msgilligan / nix-gradle-sample

Examples of building Gradle packages with Nix

Overview

This repository contains some examples of how to package Gradle based applications using Nix.

For an overview of what is provided run nix flake show:

├───apps
│   ├───aarch64-linux
│   └───x86_64-linux
├───checks
│   ├───aarch64-linux
│   │   └───treefmt: derivation 'treefmt-check'
│   └───x86_64-linux
│       └───treefmt: derivation 'treefmt-check'
├───devShells
│   ├───aarch64-linux
│   │   └───default: development environment 'devshell'
│   └───x86_64-linux
│       └───default: development environment 'devshell'
├───formatter
│   ├───aarch64-linux: package 'treefmt'
│   └───x86_64-linux: package 'treefmt'
├───legacyPackages
│   ├───aarch64-linux omitted (use '--legacy' to show)
│   └───x86_64-linux omitted (use '--legacy' to show)
├───nixosConfigurations
├───nixosModules
├───overlays
└───packages
    ├───aarch64-linux
    │   ├───fod: package 'fod-1.0.0'
    │   ├───gradle2nix: package 'gradle2nix-1.0.0'
    │   └───yolo: package 'yolo-1.0.0'
    └───x86_64-linux
        ├───fod: package 'fod-1.0.0'
        ├───gradle2nix: package 'gradle2nix-1.0.0'
        └───yolo: package 'yolo-1.0.0'

To execute the sample packages you can run:

• nix run fod for the vanilla fixed-output derivation approach.
• nix run gradle2nix for the Gradle2nix based approach
• nix run yolo for the escape hatch based "I just can't this to fucking work" approach.