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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 |
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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.