Tutorials# These sections contains series of lessons to get started. First steps Ad hoc shell environments Reproducible interpreted scripts Declarative shell environments Towards reproducibility: pinning Nixpkgs Nix language basics Overview Names and values Functions Function libraries Impurities Derivations Worked examples References Next steps Packaging existing software Introduction Your first package A package with dependencies Finding packages Fixing build failures A successful build References Next steps Package parameters and overrides with callPackage Overview Automatic function calls Parameterised builds Overrides Interdependent package sets Summary References Next steps Working with local files File sets Example project Adding files to the Nix store Difference Missing files Union (explicitly exclude files) Filter Union (explicitly include files) Matching files tracked by Git Intersection Conclusion Cross compilation What do you need? Platforms What’s a target platform? Determining the host platform config Choosing the host platform with Nix Specifying the host platform Cross compiling for the first time Real-world cross compiling of a Hello World example Developer environment with a cross compiler Next steps Module system What do you need? How long will it take? NixOS Creating NixOS images Testing and deploying NixOS configurations Scaling up
