[ ] nix                  Use 'nix build' with the nix job scheduler to build crates inside a sandbox

# very common commands

[x] build                Compile a local package and all of its dependencies
[ ] run                  Run a binary or example of the local package
[ ] doc                  Build a package's documentation
[ ] test                 Execute all unit and integration tests and build examples of a local package
[ ] check                Check a local package and all of its dependencies for errors
[ ] clippy               Checks a package to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code.

# less common commands (which require backend adaptions)

[ ] clean                Remove artifacts that cargo has generated in the past
[0] install              Install a Rust binary
[0] uninstall            Remove a Rust binary
[0] rustdoc              Build a package's documentation, using specified custom flags.
[0] lint-docs            alias: run --package xtask-lint-docs --
[0] fetch                Fetch dependencies of a package from the network
[0] generate-lockfile    Generate the lockfile for a package
[0] vendor               Vendor all dependencies for a project locally
[0] bench                Execute all benchmarks of a local package
[0] build-man            alias: run --package xtask-build-man --
[0] bump-check           alias: run --package xtask-bump-check --
[0] rustc                Compile a package, and pass extra options to the compiler
[0] package              Assemble the local package into a distributable tarball

# less common commands (which require NO backend adaptions)

[!] verify-project       DEPRECATED: Check correctness of crate manifest.
[!] config               Inspect configuration values
[!] fix                  Automatically fix lint warnings reported by rustc
[!] fmt                  Formats all bin and lib files of the current crate using rustfmt.
[!] help                 Displays help for a cargo subcommand
[!] info                 Display information about a package
[!] init                 Create a new cargo package in an existing directory
[!] locate-project       Print a JSON representation of a Cargo.toml file's location
[!] login                Log in to a registry.
[!] logout               Remove an API token from the registry locally
[!] metadata             Output the resolved dependencies of a package, the concrete used versions including overrides, in machine-readable format
[!] new                  Create a new cargo package at <path>
[!] owner                Manage the owners of a crate on the registry
[!] pkgid                Print a fully qualified package specification
[!] publish              Upload a package to the registry
[!] read-manifest        DEPRECATED: Print a JSON representation of a Cargo.toml manifest.
[!] remove               Remove dependencies from a Cargo.toml manifest file
[!] report               Generate and display various kinds of reports
[!] rm                   alias: remove
[!] search               Search packages in the registry. Default registry is crates.io
[!] stale-label          alias: run --package xtask-stale-label --
[!] tree                 Display a tree visualization of a dependency graph
[!] update               Update dependencies as recorded in the local lock file
[!] version              Show version information
[!] yank                 Remove a pushed crate from the index

legend

[x] means explicit libnix enhanced code to support this feature
[0] means unsupported feature, needs code like in run to show the user that there is no support (unsupported)
[ ] not supported yet, but command won't tell you but at times fail strangely
[!] no changes were required, using vanilla cargo

nix develop
cargo build

alias cargo=/home/nixos/cargo/target/debug/cargo

CARGO_BACKEND=nix cargo build
CARGO_BACKEND=legacy cargo build

time nix build --file target/debug/nix/default.nix --impure -L --no-link --print-out-paths target --json --log-format internal-json

/nix/store/5646xcjihqq11icyxyr3s0jc89s8j1hj-cargo-targets-symlinks/bin/cargo-targets-symlinks

                       /- cargo legacy    (both use the same cargo / rustc so we know it is buildable)
name                 |   | cargo libnix
cargo          v1.87 | x | +   "openssl-sys" = [ pkg-config openssl ];
build-parser  v0.1.8 | x | x
ripgrep      v14.1.1 | x | x
atuin        v18.5.0 | x | x
trunk       v0.21.14 | x | x
sd            v1.0.0 | x | x
mdBook        v0.5.2 | x | x
just           v1.46 | x | x
fd            v7.3.0 | x | x
pankat-rs     v0.1.1 | x | +   "libsqlite3-sys" = [ pkg-config sqlite ];
rustpad       v0.1.0 | x | x
synapse        1.0.0 |   | x
starship             |   | +   "openssl-sys" = [ pkg-config openssl ];  "libz-ng-sys" = [ cmake ];
nix-installer 3.15.1 |   | +
    { pkgs }: 
            with pkgs;
            {
                deps = {};
                envs = {
                    "nix-installer" = {
                        NIX_TARBALL_URL = "foo.tar.xz";
                        DETERMINATE_NIX_TARBALL_PATH = "../README.md";
                        DETERMINATE_NIXD_BINARY_PATH = "../README.md";
                    };
                };
            }
coreutils            |   | x  (requires manual patch because of OUT_DIR) 
   ++++ we could introduce BUILD_OUT_DIR="${coreutils-0_5_0-script_build_run-7d8760345f435e2a}"; so in the source include!(concat!(env!("BUILD_OUT_DIR"), "/uutils_map.rs"));
   ++++ horrible amount of useless recompiles due to src = builtins.filterSource on 80 root crate targets

bat          v0.25.0 | x | x
delta        v0.18.2 |   | x
rust-analyzer        |   | x
   2025-01-07
nushell      0.102.0 | x | +   "openssl-sys" = [ pkg-config openssl ];

tokio                |   | (wrong bin name, no libs)
slint           1.15 |   | ? /derivations/i-slint-backend-qt-1.15.0-script_build_run-c2a74fa170f66d1e.nix':","\nthread 'main' panicked at internal/backends/qt/build.rs:18:38:\ncalled `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: NotPresent
lightningcss         | x | (no targets, it is just a library)
rphtml       v0.5.10 | x | (no targets, it is just a library)
axum                 | x | (no targets, it is just a library)
yew                  | x | (no targets, it is just a library)
servo                |   | (no targets, it is just a library) 
`cargo build` does not compile:
 Compiling idna v1.1.0
 thread 'main' panicked at /home/nixos/.cargo/git/checkouts/stylo-482338307e42a9ea/a47ab67/style/build.rs:38:9:
  Can't find python (tried python3)! Try fixing PATH or setting the PYTHON3 env var
  note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
cargo-leptos         | x | deps/openssl-sys-0.9.110-script_build_run-c7b5d3a81281fe1c.nix':","\n\n\n/build/openssl-src-300.5.4+3.5.4/openssl: No such fi
                           bundled openssl won't compile (source can't be found)
leptos               | x | fails to create build system (target)
bevy                 |   | fails to create build system (target)
fuse-rs              |   | fails to create build system (target)
uv                   | ? | 
vaultwarden          | x | legacy: `cargo build  --features sqlite` works
    nix build --file target/debug/nix/cargo_build_caller.nix target -L
    CARGO_BACKEND=nix ~/cargo/target/debug/cargo build -v --features sqlite
    error: evaluation aborted with the following error message: 'lib.customisation.callPackageWith: Function called without required argument "vaultwarden-1_0_0-script_build-ab50c3dfe01f1634" at /home/nixos/tests/vaultwarden/target/debug/nix/derivations/vaultwarden-1.0.0-script_build_run-373c093bb6046a0d.nix:2'
ka4h2        v0.0.24 | x |
klick         v0.5.7 | x |
influxdb             | ? | Downloading git --url, https://github.com fails...
helix                |   | helix-term/build.rs:5:26:\nFailed to fetch tree-sitter grammars: 277 grammars failed to fetch
codex                |   | cd codex-rs -> generates incomplete nix based build system for 'ratatui'
fuel-core            |   | 
eza                  |   | error: include_str!(concat!(env!("OUT_DIR"), "/version_string.txt"))
zed                  |   | async-task: error: No such file or directory (os error 2)
meilisearch          |   | error: No such file or directory (os error 2) during `cargo build`
typst                |   | error: No such file or directory (os error 2) during `cargo build`
RustPython           |   | error: No such file or directory (os error 2) during `cargo build`
   2024-12-30-main-4
egui                 |   | ?
ruff                 |   | error: rustc 1.89.0 is not supported by the following packages:
zellij               |   | error: rustc 1.89.0 is not supported by the following package:
fish-shell           |   | git clone error - error: No such file or directory (os error 2)
surrealdb            |   | There was an error executing build_script_build in file: '/home/nixos/tests/surrealdb/target/debug/nix/derivations/deps/rquickjs-sys-0.9.0-script_build_run-cc5015d81fa1961f.nix
Unable to find libclang: "couldn't find any valid shared libraries matching: ['libclang.so', 'libclang-*.so', 'libclang.so.*', 'libclang-*.so.*'], set the `LIBCLANG_PATH` environment variable to a path where one of these files can be found (invalid: [])"
difftastic           |   | Compiling tikv-jemalloc-sys  error: returning 'char *' from a function with return type 'int' makes integer from pointer without a cast [-Wint-conversion] "make" "-j" "8"
expected success, got: exit status: 2
sniffnet             |   | sniffnet-1_4_2-bin-3810a677ed3b815e: bin/mktemp: Argument list too long (maybe this means the -L ... list to rustc because it is huge)
dioxus               |   | `cargo build` does not create anything in target/debug and nix-backend does not build anything


x means compiles out of the box
+ means needs Cargo.dependencies.nix
? means tried but failed