nixpkgs/doc/builders/special/mkshell.section.md

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# pkgs.mkShell {#sec-pkgs-mkShell}
`pkgs.mkShell` is a special kind of derivation that is only useful when using
it combined with `nix-shell`. It will in fact fail to instantiate when invoked
with `nix-build`.
## Usage {#sec-pkgs-mkShell-usage}
```nix
{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }:
pkgs.mkShell {
# specify which packages to add to the shell environment
packages = [ pkgs.gnumake ];
# add all the dependencies, of the given packages, to the shell environment
inputsFrom = with pkgs; [ hello gnutar ];
}
```