Given a foreign binary on a Nix system, you have to patch its dynamic linker/loader.
First you need to find out what linker/loader to use.
You can do this by going into your nix repl and loading your desired nixpkgs.
Then you run:
"${pkgs.glibc}/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2"Which will return you a path that looks like this:
/nix/store/d54amiggq6bw23jw6mdsgamvs6v1g3bh-glibc-2.25-123/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
You can then use:
patchelf --set-interpreter '/nix/store/d54amiggq6bw23jw6mdsgamvs6v1g3bh-glibc-2.25-123/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2' ./binarytobepatched
Or you can run it directly:
/nix/store/d54amiggq6bw23jw6mdsgamvs6v1g3bh-glibc-2.25-123/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 ./binarytobepatched
Note that if you are doing this inside a Nix expression, you should be instead using:
$(cat $NIX_CC/nix-support/dynamic-linker)
Note that if you use ldd on NixOS on an unpatched binary it will probably show:
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /nix/store/d54amiggq6bw23jw6mdsgamvs6v1g3bh-glibc-2.25-123/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f04fcc29000)
That ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 path is derived from the Glibc that ldd itself was built with.