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Nix on Windows

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Nix on Windows

Native Nix
Built in Visual C++
No Mingw, MSYS or Cygwin
NTFS Nix store
Symbolic links

Nixpkgs on Windows

rpath and patchelf for DLL
MSYS2 stdenv
Mingw-w64 stdenv
Visual C++ stdenv
Clang-CL stdenv
MSI to Nix
Windows containers

Further reading

Discourse thread: Nix on Windows? (2018)
Technical Report: Nix on Windows (2015)
Deprecated Nixpkgs Visual C++ (2006)
GitHub ticket: Windows MinGW/MSYS2 support (2017)
Cygwin 1.7 in Nix 0.14 release notes (2010)

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