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Added tutorial to install overlay
Yappaholic Jun 25, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ In your `flake.nix` file:
};
}
```

In a shell:

```sh
Expand All @@ -44,7 +43,36 @@ $ nix shell 'github:mitchellh/zig-overlay#master-2021-02-13'
# open a shell with latest nightly version
$ nix shell 'github:mitchellh/zig-overlay#master'
```
### Adding zig as a package

To access zig as a package:

In your `flake.nix` file:

```nix
{
inputs.zig.url = "github:mitchellh/zig-overlay";

outputs = { self, zig, ... }: {
...
modules = [
{nixpkgs.overlays = [zig.overlays.default];}
...
...
];
};
}
```
In your `configuration.nix` file :

```nix
{pkgs,inputs, ...}: {
...
environment.systemPackages = [
pkgs.zigpkgs.master # or <version>/master-<date>/
]
}
```
### Compiler Development

This flake outputs a template that makes it easy to work on the Zig
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