tvl-depot/tvix/eval
Vincent Ambo 3aca3d3bba refactor(tvix): build Rust projects using crate2nix
Introduces granular dependency builds using crate2nix, bootstrapped
off the generated configuration from the newly introduced
workspace (see cl/7533).

This commit checks in the generated Cargo.nix file which can be
regenerated with a parameterless invocation of `crate2nix generate` in
`//tvix`. I tried generating this in IFD, but it turned out to be
harder than what seemed worthwhile for now.

In this setup, the various build targets for Rust projects end up
being attributes of the imported `Cargo.nix` file at the `tvix.crates`
attribute. These still lack configuration, however, which has been
fixed in the various `default.nix` files of individual projects.

Note that we (temporarily) lose the ability to build tvix-eval's
benchmarks in CI. I haven't figured out what magic incantation summons
them from the void again ...

The `eval-okay-readDir` tests from both test suites have been disabled
because they fail for unknown reasons when run in this new derivation.
Somebody will have to debug it!

Change-Id: I2014614ccb9c8951aedbd71df7966ca191a13695
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7538
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
2022-12-15 17:26:45 +00:00
..
benches refactor(tvix/eval): use Clap for arg+env parsing 2022-09-18 22:08:43 +00:00
builtin-macros refactor(tvix): share a Cargo.lock file between Rust projects 2022-12-15 17:26:45 +00:00
docs docs(tvix/eval): document abandoned thread-local vm 2022-11-08 08:41:04 +00:00
proptest-regressions/value test(tvix/eval): Add tests for the Eq laws of Value 2022-09-18 17:57:09 +00:00
src refactor(tvix): build Rust projects using crate2nix 2022-12-15 17:26:45 +00:00
tests feat(tvix/eval): Allow adding strings to paths 2022-10-10 20:23:41 +00:00
.skip-subtree feat(tvix/tests): check in Nix' language test suite 2022-08-24 21:25:41 +00:00
build.rs feat(tvix/eval): implement builtins.currentSystem 2022-10-24 12:20:01 +00:00
Cargo.toml refactor(tvix): share a Cargo.lock file between Rust projects 2022-12-15 17:26:45 +00:00
default.nix refactor(tvix): build Rust projects using crate2nix 2022-12-15 17:26:45 +00:00
README.md docs(tvix/eval): explain where to find the site-specific mg tool 2022-10-13 18:41:02 +00:00

Tvix Evaluator

This project implements an interpreter for the Nix programming language. You can experiment with an online version of the evaluator: tvixbolt.

The interpreter aims to be compatible with nixpkgs, on the foundation of Nix 2.3.

Important note: The evaluator is not yet feature-complete, and while the core mechanisms (compiler, runtime, ...) have stabilised somewhat, a lot of components are still changing rapidly.

Please contact TVL with any questions you might have.

Building the evaluator

If you are in a full checkout of the TVL depot, you can simply run mg build in this directory (or mg build //tvix/eval from anywhere in the repo). The mg command is found in /tools/magrathea.

Important note: We only use and test Nix builds of our software against Nix 2.3. There are a variety of bugs and subtle problems in newer Nix versions which we do not have the bandwidth to address, builds in newer Nix versions may or may not work.

The evaluator can also be built with standard Rust tooling (i.e. cargo build).

If you would like to clone only the evaluator and build it directly with Rust tooling, you can do:

git clone https://code.tvl.fyi/depot.git:/tvix/eval.git tvix-eval

cd tvix-eval && cargo build

Nix test suite

C++ Nix implements a language test suite in the form of Nix source code files, and their expected output. The coverage of this test suite is not complete, but we intend to be compatible with it.

We have ported the test suite to Tvix, but do not run it by default as we are not yet compatible with it.

You can run the test suite by enabling the nix_tests feature in Cargo:

cargo test --features nix_tests

rnix-parser

Tvix is written in memory of jD91mZM2, the author of rnix-parser who sadly passed away.

Tvix makes heavy use of rnix-parser in its bytecode compiler. The parser is now maintained by Nix community members.