nixpkgs/doc/shell.section.md

23 lines
488 B
Markdown
Raw Normal View History

2017-12-20 23:42:07 +00:00
---
2017-12-24 00:40:01 +00:00
title: pkgs.mkShell
2017-12-20 23:42:07 +00:00
author: zimbatm
date: 2017-10-30
---
2018-03-24 15:36:10 +00:00
# mkShell
2017-12-24 00:40:01 +00:00
pkgs.mkShell is a special kind of derivation that is only useful when using
2017-12-20 23:42:07 +00:00
it combined with nix-shell. It will in fact fail to instantiate when invoked
with nix-build.
## Usage
```nix
{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }:
pkgs.mkShell {
# this will make all the build inputs from hello and gnutar available to the shell environment
inputsFrom = with pkgs; [ hello gnutar ];
buildInputs = [ pkgs.gnumake ];
}
```