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Resources to install NixOS bare metal on Apple Silicon Macs
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re: mesa: seeking strategies for rebuilding the world #217

Closed montchr closed 3 months ago

montchr commented 3 months ago

First off, disclaimer: this is not a bug report or feature request. I would have posted this in a GitHub Discussion thread, but they are not enabled for this project. And I figured that there wouldn't be much point in soliciting advice for such a niche setup in the Discourse (but maybe I'm wrong).

I recently enabled the experimental GPU driver via the overlay method (because flakes) and rebuilt the world. It took a while, of course, and I am very pleased with the results. However, I'm thinking that the only way I was able to rebuild my system the first time was because I used one of those paid remote-builders services, but I'm not trying to make that a habit.

It probably wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have to build 3+ different versions of webkitgtk. I haven't yet been able to build even one of those derivations without depending on a paid build service because webkitgtk requires fine-tuning build settings and I haven't yet found the correct combination to build successfully. I'm thinking I may just end up making the tradeoff to use the replace mode despite the additional complications for a flake-based setup.

So, for those of you that use Asahi Mesa on a flakes-based configuration, I'm wondering: what does your workflow look like? How often do you update? How do you minimize excessively-difficult builds like webkitgtk?

iclanzan commented 1 month ago

I am writing this in case it helps anyone, but I’ve tried repeatedly to “build the world” like this and the build would always eventually fail at compiling webkitgtk, electron or chromium. The build was running out of memory no matter how much swap I threw at it. Adding the -j 1 flag to force compiling one thing at a time however made everything build successfully!