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John Ericson

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Nix and BSD: NetBSD

As announced on the Nix discourse: We can also cross compile OpenBSD binaries now! Nixpkgs branch: https://github.com/obsidiansystems/nixpkgs/tree/openbsd-rollup (will be making PRs from here and force pushing it, be warned) Command: nix-build --arg crossSystem '{ system = "x86_64-openbsd"; isStatic = true;
John Ericson Jun 9, 2026

Compiler bootstrapping in Nixpkgs

Nixpkgs is a very large pure functional program, a recipe for building 10,000s of open source projects — building just about every bit of software we can get our hands on. For a program this large, with this many authors, it is very important to think about how it should
John Ericson Mar 15, 2026

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