[Feature] NixOS package distribution

[DennisJensen95]

Hey!

Thanks for your guys hard work!

It would be awesome if these packages were made available in NixOS packages as well so you could import them in your Nix flakes. Would be a supreme developer experience.

[bblanchon]

Hi @DennisJensen95,

Would you be able to prepare a pull request?

Best regards,
Benoit

[DennisJensen95]

I would like to, but I am a bit strained on time. I have made a few nix derivations that does install the binaries though. I will leave it here if anyone wants to pick it up, else i might come back later at a day where I have more time :)

{ stdenv, fetchurl }:

stdenv.mkDerivation {
  name = "pdfium-linux-x64  ";
  src = fetchurl {
    url = "https://github.com/bblanchon/pdfium-binaries/releases/download/chromium%2F6309/pdfium-linux-x64.tgz";
    sha256 = "as+hRy1Mg5l8oEAOyDXY9crRHx2PRT0RQC+YEUD/ako=";
  };

  sourceRoot = "lib";

  # Assuming the tarball contains binaries and doesn't need building
  installPhase = ''
    mkdir -p $out/lib
    cp -r * $out/lib
  '';

  meta = {
    description = "PDFium library for linux x64";
    homepage = "https://github.com/bblanchon/pdfium-binaries";
  };
}

And for anyone interested, this is how i import it in my nix flake:

pdfiumPackageForSystem = system:
if system == "x86_64-linux" then "pdfium-linux-x64"
else if system == "aarch64-darwin" then "pdfium-mac-arm64"
else if system == "aarch64-linux" then "pdfium-linux-arm64"
else throw "Unsupported system: ${system}";

callPdfiumPackage = name: pkgs.callPackage (./nix/${name}.nix) { };
pdfium = callPdfiumPackage (pdfiumPackageForSystem system);

⚠️ DISCLAIMER

I am by no means, no nix expert. So this might not be the correct way to do things 😊