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Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   1
# frq is Jolt source, so "building" it is three things, not one:
#   jolt        the runtime that reads it        (github:jolt-lang/jolt)
#   jolt-native libvidya and libjoltmoq, in Rust (gitlab:nandithebull/jolt-native)
#   frq         this tree, with its deps resolved to store paths
# Jolt resolves deps.edn by running git at startup, which a build sandbox has
# no network for — so every dep is fetched by Nix instead and handed back as
# a :local/root through -Sdeps.
#   nix build .#frq && ./result/bin/frq
# On a machine that is not NixOS the GL driver is the host's and the loader
# will not find it, so the window never opens ("GL display: argument does not
Find the host's GL driver when the store's is not the system's   16  # name a valid config"). The launcher handles that itself: off NixOS it hands
# the process to nixGL, which puts the host's driver ahead of the store's.
# Nothing extra to type, and a distrobox/container Arch is the same case as
# a bare one.
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   20  description = "frq — a freeq client in jolt";
inputs = {
  nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
Take jolt and jolt-native as flakes, off my own fork   24    # `git+https` with `?submodules=1` rather than the github scheme: Jolt's
  # own flake declares `self.submodules`, which this Nix rejects when the
  # flake is fetched as `github:`. Its outputs are not what we take — the
  # runtime is built here, by joltFrom — but it is a flake all the same, so
  # its own inputs are locked with ours rather than left to float, and
  # `vendor/` comes along as the submodule the build needs.
  # The fork rather than jolt-lang/jolt: it is what jolt-android-src already
  # pins for the boot image, and a desktop runtime built from a different
  # tree than the APK's is the same drift the jolt-native comment warns
  # about. Unpinned here — the desktop follows the fork's main, while the
  # APK stays on the rev below.
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   36    jolt-src = {
Take jolt and jolt-native as flakes, off my own fork   37      url = "git+https://gitlab.com/nandithebull/jolt?submodules=1";
    inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   39
Build the desktop libraries rather than fetching a release of them   41    # Ahead of v0.1.3, which is what nix/android.nix pins the APK to — and
  # deliberately: that pin is the last release, and this is what `just run`
  # builds, so a change to jolt-native can be run before there is a release
  # to fetch. The two meet again at `just bump`.
Take the jolt-native ahead of the release, since a run can build it   45
  # Pinned all the same, and pinned to a rev: this input carries both halves of
Pin the native half to the release the rest of the tree names   47    # glimmer-vidya — libvidya, and the Jolt side that binds it — so an
  # unpinned `main` is a build whose native half is free to sit at a
  # different commit from the tree that talks to it. It did, and what the
  # drift cost was silence: the Jolt half sent a reaction pill's hover card
  # to a libvidya with no handler for one, and the pill said nothing.
Merge origin/main, and let one jolt-native answer for both backends   52    # It also carries the terminal backend — crates/jolt-tui, the same tree ABI
  # over a grid of cells, and jolt/glimmer-tui beside glimmer-vidya. That was
  # a second input at a second rev while it lived on a branch, which is the
  # drift this comment warns about wearing a different hat: one input, and
  # the window and the terminal are the same library either way.
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   57    jolt-native = {
Take jolt and jolt-native as flakes, off my own fork   58      url = "git+https://gitlab.com/nandithebull/jolt-native?rev=4956d1e2f73eae7b1f8ef16fab875c56c69dea84";
    inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
Paint the same screens into a terminal   60
Build the APK from the flake, and from nothing   62    # Chez itself, because the APK needs a cross target nixpkgs does not
  # build: frq's Scheme is compiled to an arm64 boot image, and that wants
  # Chez's own `tarm64le` workarea — boot files, xpatch and libkernel.a.
  # The version is the one the hand-built tree under ~/.cache used, and the
  # submodules are not optional (zuo builds it, lz4 and zlib link into it).
Take jolt and jolt-native as flakes, off my own fork   67    # The same fork jolt-src takes, built here rather than fetched as a
  # release binary: upstream reads the socket address out of `struct
Build the APK from the flake, and from nothing   69    # addrinfo` at glibc's offset, which on Bionic is `ai_canonname`, so an APK
Take jolt and jolt-native as flakes, off my own fork   70    # built with upstream cannot open a TLS connection at all. Pinned to a rev
  # where jolt-src is not: the APK is a release artefact, so its runtime
  # moves when `just bump` says so rather than when the fork does.
Build the APK from the flake, and from nothing   73    jolt-android-src = {
    url = "git+https://gitlab.com/nandithebull/jolt?rev=2b80d68d1f7a31ba92b208b3957e5fb555617ada&submodules=1";
Take jolt and jolt-native as flakes, off my own fork   75      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
Build the APK from the flake, and from nothing   76
  chez-src = {
    url = "git+https://github.com/cisco/ChezScheme?ref=refs/tags/v10.4.1&submodules=1";
    flake = false;
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   83    # The sha deps.edn pins, on the fork with the reconciler fixes.
  glimmer = {
    url = "git+https://gitlab.com/nandithebull/glimmer?rev=399df371c790d690fb6e4560c3d4d7f838502857";
    flake = false;
Find the host's GL driver when the store's is not the system's   88
  # Only ever used off NixOS, to put the host GL driver on the loader path.
  nixgl = {
    url = "github:nix-community/nixGL";
    inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
Bundle the closure into one file the AppImage runtime mounts   94
  # Wraps a closure into a single self-extracting file. Only the `appimage`
  # output evaluates it.
  nix-appimage = {
    url = "github:ralismark/nix-appimage";
    inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   101
Bundle the closure into one file the AppImage runtime mounts   103  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, jolt-src, jolt-native, glimmer, chez-src, jolt-android-src, nixgl, nix-appimage }:
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   104
    systems = [ "x86_64-linux" "aarch64-linux" ];
    forEachSystem = f:
      nixpkgs.lib.genAttrs systems (system: f nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system});
Run this tree on a native half the builders made   108
    # Mesa, despite the name: it covers Intel and AMD alike. The NVIDIA
    # wrappers are the ones that need --impure (they read the host kernel
    # module's version), which is why this only ever reaches for Intel.
Stop carrying the 32-bit GL stack and half of git   112
    # Built from nixGL's default.nix rather than taken from its flake
    # outputs, for the one argument the flake hardcodes on: `enable32bits`,
    # which on x86_64 puts a second, i686 copy of mesa, its LLVM, and
    # intel-media-driver into the wrapper. frq is 64-bit on both halves —
    # the Rust cdylibs and the Chez runtime — so nothing here ever opens the
    # 32-bit driver, and carrying it is most of the dev shell's closure.
    nixGLFor = pkgs: (import nixgl {
      inherit pkgs;
      enable32bits = false;
    }).nixGLIntel;
Run this tree on a native half the builders made   123
    # egui reaches for these with dlopen rather than linking them, so being
    # in the cdylib's buildInputs is not enough — whatever starts frq has to
Follow the xorg renames, and stop wrapping nix in distrobox   126      # put them on the loader path itself. Without libx11 here, vidya reports
Run this tree on a native half the builders made   127      # "X11 unavailable", falls back to Wayland, and winit refuses to build a
    # second event loop after the failed first one.
    # Out here rather than beside the package that first needed them: the
    # dev shell starts frq too, on this tree's source rather than the store's
    # copy of it, and a second copy of this list is a second chance for the
    # two ways of running to disagree about what the window needs.
    runtimeLibsFor = pkgs: with pkgs; [
      libGL
      libxkbcommon
      wayland
Follow the xorg renames, and stop wrapping nix in distrobox   138        libx11
      libxcursor
      libxi
      libxrandr
Run this tree on a native half the builders made   142        vulkan-loader
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   144
    packages = forEachSystem (pkgs:
      let
        inherit (pkgs) lib;
Run this tree on a native half the builders made   150          nixGL = nixGLFor pkgs;
Find the host's GL driver when the store's is not the system's   151
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   152          # libvidya (the retained-tree ABI glimmer-vidya binds, on egui) and
        # libjoltmoq (the AV media plane). One workspace, two cdylibs.
        native = pkgs.rustPlatform.buildRustPackage {
          pname = "jolt-native";
          version = "0.1.0";
          src = jolt-native;
Hash the media plane's git deps rather than cloning them per eval   159            # The media plane's deps are seven git repos rather than crates.io
          # releases. `allowBuiltinFetchGit` would fetch them with
          # builtins.fetchGit, which happens at *eval* time — so every
          # evaluation clones them in full (all refs), even when the built
          # library is already in a cache, and the clones themselves are not
          # derivations and can never be substituted. Hashed, they are plain
          # fixed-output derivations: one entry per repo (nixpkgs keys these
          # by commit, so the sibling crates out of the same workspace are
          # covered), substitutable, fetched once. The cost is that these
          # move whenever jolt-native's Cargo.lock does.
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   169            cargoLock = {
            lockFile = "${jolt-native}/Cargo.lock";
Hash the media plane's git deps rather than cloning them per eval   171              outputHashes = {
              # github.com/Frando/moq @ 53fe78d8 — moq-lite, moq-native, hang, conducer
              "moq-lite-0.15.5" = "sha256-wh8telcXK4Zqaefs42n6LJitye8cc0rAmXd8RtJZJ+Q=";
              # github.com/n0-computer/iroh-live @ edd9bcc5 — iroh-moq, moq-media, rusty-{capture,codecs}
              "iroh-live-0.1.0" = "sha256-+bOIMXU4F/9toLZ25MFRA0Kd3Cr4iyP4icOfBkObtfU=";
              # github.com/n0-computer/iroh @ 8af8370b — iroh, iroh-base, iroh-relay
              "iroh-0.97.0" = "sha256-tCEzLwu+bcAiH0dMmQoKRB24N5eiNG6BNixod8Y6igo=";
              # github.com/Frando/web-transport @ f7a523f1 — the four web-transport-* crates
              "web-transport-proto-0.6.0" = "sha256-5WP98+nTI6FR23AM7DNf0nnsolqr7M0RHxY09NNdDzs=";
              # github.com/n0-computer/noq @ ab042ea7 — noq, noq-proto, noq-udp
              "noq-0.17.0" = "sha256-aur6ekfwr3PsnR8RrBKLgCvujQRi4tccyK9nJo6O+Tg=";
              "iroh-gossip-0.97.0" = "sha256-DEIq1BCsCZL+1q9yiEZAXzv7wxvIXgsW044Y8uHW7PU=";
              "iroh-smol-kv-0.3.1" = "sha256-oXGdnJVyQfiomzyZhj5r7ez4Uxh73imGt6V9+vHTQZQ=";
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   185
          nativeBuildInputs = with pkgs; [
            pkg-config
            cmake
            rustPlatform.bindgenHook
          buildInputs = with pkgs; [
            alsa-lib
            pipewire
            openssl
            libxkbcommon
            wayland
            libGL
          # Upstream's .cargo/config.toml drives the whole build through
          # DotSlash: a pinned rustc, sccache, and zig as the C/C++ compiler
          # and linker, each fetched from the network on first use. None of
          # that survives a build sandbox, and none of it is needed when the
          # toolchain comes from the store — so drop it and let stdenv's cc
          # link (openh264 is C++, which stdenv covers too).
          postPatch = ''
            rm -f .cargo/config.toml
          # bindgen reads linux/videodev2.h directly; upstream points it at
          # zig's bundled headers, which under Nix is just the kernel headers.
          V4L2R_VIDEODEV2_H_PATH = "${pkgs.linuxHeaders}/include";
          doCheck = false;
          installPhase = ''
            runHook preInstall
            mkdir -p "$out/lib"
            install -m644 target/*/release/*.so "$out/lib/"
            runHook postInstall
        # Jolt itself: Clojure on Chez, built the way its own flake builds it.
Build the APK from the flake, and from nothing   227          # A function, because there are two of them — upstream for the
        # desktop, and the Bionic-addrinfo fork for the boot image the APK
        # carries. Nothing else about the build differs.
        joltFrom = src: pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   231            pname = "jolt";
          version = "dev";
Build the APK from the flake, and from nothing   233            inherit src;
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   234
          strictDeps = true;
          nativeBuildInputs = with pkgs; [ chez makeWrapper pkg-config xxd ];
          buildInputs = with pkgs; [ lz4 zlib ncurses openssl libuuid ];
          JOLT_VERSION = "dev";
          dontConfigure = true;
          buildPhase = ''
            runHook preBuild
            scheme --script host/chez/build-jolt.ss release target/release/jolt
            runHook postBuild
          installPhase = ''
            runHook preInstall
            mkdir -p "$out/bin"
            install -m755 target/release/jolt "$out/bin/jolt"
            runHook postInstall
          # jolt.deps shells out to git and unzip, and jolt.mvn-http dlopens
Stop carrying the 32-bit GL stack and half of git   256            # OpenSSL through the JOLT_OPENSSL_LIBDIR seam. gitMinimal rather
          # than git: all jolt.deps asks for is clone/fetch/rev-parse, and
          # the full package carries Perl and Python for the subcommands
          # written in them — a quarter of a gigabyte for git-send-email.
Read the clock in the reader's zone when /etc/localtime is a file   260
          # TZDIR so a zone *name* resolves wherever this runs: frq.clock
          # hands one to tzset, and glibc then looks for the tzfile under
          # /usr/share/zoneinfo unless told otherwise — which a NixOS host
          # does not have. The store's own tzdata is there on both kinds of
          # machine. --set-default, so a TZDIR the user set still wins.
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   266            postFixup = ''
            wrapProgram "$out/bin/jolt" \
Stop carrying the 32-bit GL stack and half of git   268                --prefix PATH : "${pkgs.lib.makeBinPath [ pkgs.gitMinimal pkgs.unzip ]}" \
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   269                --set-default JOLT_OPENSSL_LIBDIR "${pkgs.lib.makeLibraryPath [ pkgs.openssl ]}" \
Read the clock in the reader's zone when /etc/localtime is a file   270                --set-default TZDIR "${pkgs.tzdata}/share/zoneinfo" \
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   271                --set-default SSL_CERT_FILE "${pkgs.cacert}/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt"
Build the APK from the flake, and from nothing   275          joltRuntime = joltFrom jolt-src;
        joltAndroid = joltFrom jolt-android-src;
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   278          # glimmer-vidya lives inside the jolt-native checkout, and its own
        # deps.edn asks for glimmer by git — the top-level override below
        # answers for both.
        glimmerVidya = "${jolt-native}/jolt/glimmer-vidya";
Merge origin/main, and let one jolt-native answer for both backends   282          glimmerTui = "${jolt-native}/jolt/glimmer-tui";
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   283
Run this tree on a native half the builders made   284          runtimeLibs = runtimeLibsFor pkgs;
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   285
        # The project as jolt sees it: source, deps.edn, nothing else.
        frqSource = pkgs.runCommand "frq-source" { } ''
          mkdir -p "$out"
          cp -r ${self}/src ${self}/deps.edn "$out/"
        # Jolt resolves deps.edn from the working directory, so the launcher
        # runs from the store copy. Its .jolt/cpcache write lands on a
        # read-only directory and jolt treats that as a quiet cache miss, so
        # the only cost is re-resolving the (already local) graph per start.
        frqScript = pkgs.writeShellScript "frq" ''
          export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${native}/lib:${lib.makeLibraryPath runtimeLibs}''${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
          cd ${frqSource}
Find the host's GL driver when the store's is not the system's   299
          # On NixOS the store's Mesa is the system's and the window opens.
          # Anywhere else the real driver is the host's, so defer to nixGL —
          # it prepends the host driver, which has to win over ours.
          runner=""
          [ -e /run/current-system ] || runner="${nixGL}/bin/nixGLIntel"
          exec ''${runner} ${joltRuntime}/bin/jolt \
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   307              -Sdeps '{:deps {jolt-lang/glimmer {:local/root "${glimmer}"} nandi/glimmer-vidya {:local/root "${glimmerVidya}"}}}' \
            -M:frq "$@"
Paint the same screens into a terminal   311          # The same source, the other backend. No GL, no nixGL and no X11 —
        # a terminal is the one surface that needs nothing from the host but
        # a terminal, which is the reason this output exists.
        tuiScript = pkgs.writeShellScript "frq-tui" ''
Merge origin/main, and let one jolt-native answer for both backends   315            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${native}/lib''${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
Paint the same screens into a terminal   316            cd ${frqSource}
          exec ${joltRuntime}/bin/jolt \
            -Sdeps '{:deps {jolt-lang/glimmer {:local/root "${glimmer}"} nandi/glimmer-vidya {:local/root "${glimmerVidya}"} nandi/glimmer-tui {:local/root "${glimmerTui}"}}}' \
            -m frq.tui "$@"
        tui = pkgs.runCommand "frq-tui-0.1.0"
            meta = {
              description = "frq's screens in a terminal";
              mainProgram = "frq-tui";
              platforms = systems;
            mkdir -p "$out/bin"
            ln -s ${tuiScript} "$out/bin/frq-tui"
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   336          frq = pkgs.runCommand "frq-0.1.0"
            meta = {
              description = "A freeq client in jolt";
              mainProgram = "frq";
              platforms = systems;
            mkdir -p "$out/bin"
            ln -s ${frqScript} "$out/bin/frq"
Build the APK from the flake, and from nothing   348          # --- Android ------------------------------------------------------
        # The SDK and the NDK are Google's, which means unfree and a licence
        # to accept — so this is its own import of nixpkgs rather than the
        # `legacyPackages` everything above uses. Confined to the Android
        # outputs: `nix build` of frq itself never evaluates it.
Build the APK as derivations only, and retire the buck2 graph   354          # The NDK here is r29, which is the one the pinned libvidya was
        # built with.
Build the APK from the flake, and from nothing   356          androidPkgs = import nixpkgs {
          inherit (pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform) system;
          config = {
            allowUnfree = true;
            android_sdk.accept_license = true;
        androidComposition = androidPkgs.androidenv.composeAndroidPackages {
          buildToolsVersions = [ "36.0.0" ];
          platformVersions = [ "36" ];
          includeNDK = true;
        android = import ./nix/android.nix {
          inherit pkgs self chez-src jolt-native glimmer joltAndroid;
          inherit (pkgs) lib;
          androidSdk = androidComposition.androidsdk;
          ndk = androidComposition.ndk-bundle;
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   376
        inherit native frq;
Merge origin/main, and let one jolt-native answer for both backends   379          inherit tui;
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   380          jolt = joltRuntime;
        default = frq;
Bundle the closure into one file the AppImage runtime mounts   382
Take bb from the flake, so a checkout needs nix and nothing else   383          # The interpreter scripts/ is written in, named here so that
        # scripts/bb can build it. Nothing else in this flake uses it: it is
        # an output because a shell script cannot ask for `nixpkgs#babashka`
        # at the version this tree pins, and `.#bb` is exactly that.
        bb = pkgs.babashka;
Bundle the closure into one file the AppImage runtime mounts   389          # frq and everything it loads, squashed into one runnable file for
        # hosts without Nix. The whole closure rides along — Mesa included,
        # which is not waste: off NixOS the launcher goes through nixGL, and
        # nixGL needs a store Mesa to put the host's driver in front of.
        appimage =
          nix-appimage.bundlers.${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system}.default frq;
Build the APK from the flake, and from nothing   395
      # An APK is built by a linux-x86_64 NDK and a linux-x86_64 jolt, and
      # Google ships no other; on aarch64 the Android outputs are simply
      # absent rather than present and broken.
      // lib.optionalAttrs (pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system == "x86_64-linux") {
        inherit (android) apk chezAndroid joltBoot libjoltapp;
        apk-unsigned = android.apk-unsigned;
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   402        });
Run this tree on a native half the builders made   404      # Where `just run` runs, and — because entering it realises what it
    # names — what builds the half of frq that is not this working tree.
    # The two halves, and the split is the whole point of the shell. The frq
    # source is the files on disk, uncommitted edits and all. Everything
    # under it — jolt, glimmer, glimmer-vidya, both native objects — is the
    # flake's, at the revs flake.lock names, so a run says what it ran
    # against and both halves of glimmer-vidya move together. That is the
    # drift the `jolt-native` input's comment is about, and a pin frq can
    # answer for is worth more here than the convenience of a checkout.
    # `native` is the cargo build of that input rather than jolt-native's own
    # buck2 graph, which is a compromise and not a free one: buck2 is what
    # its CI runs and what makes its releases, and its cpal has the pipewire
    # feature this one does not, so device *names* in a call come out as ALSA
    # PCMs. What it buys is a derivation — one thing nixbuild.net can be
    # handed. The buck2 build fetches its rustc, zig and every third-party
    # crate as it goes and writes buck-out into the tree it builds; a sandbox
    # with no network and a read-only store is the one place it cannot run,
    # so on a remote builder it is not a slower option but no option at all.
    # Nothing here says "nixbuild", though: it is a plain derivation, and
    # where it gets built is the machine's business. scripts/run.bb asks for
    # the shell with --max-jobs 0, which is what sends it to the `builders`
    # entry rather than compiling egui on a laptop.
    devShells = forEachSystem (pkgs:
      let
        inherit (pkgs) lib;
        inherit (self.packages.${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system}) jolt native;
        default = pkgs.mkShellNoCC {
          name = "frq";
          # jolt, because the runtime frq is run by should be the flake's
          # too. nixGL for the same reason the launcher reaches for it — see
Take bb from the flake, so a checkout needs nix and nothing else   440            # frqScript. babashka because scripts/bb prefers one on PATH, and
          # inside here that should be this one rather than a second copy
Take just from the dev shell, so the host needs no copy of it   442            # built through `.#bb`. just so the recipe runner comes from here
          # too rather than the host — `nix develop` and then `just run` is
          # the whole of what a machine with nix needs.
          packages = [ jolt pkgs.babashka pkgs.just (nixGLFor pkgs) ];
Run this tree on a native half the builders made   446
          # Read by scripts/run.bb rather than baked into a wrapper: the frq
          # source `just run` runs is the working tree, so the launcher has
          # to be a script in that tree and the shell has to hand it its
          # answers. Naming these is also what makes the shell build them.
          JOLT_NATIVE_LIB = "${native}/lib";
          GLIMMER_SRC = glimmer;
          GLIMMER_VIDYA_SRC = "${jolt-native}/jolt/glimmer-vidya";
Merge origin/main, and let one jolt-native answer for both backends   454            GLIMMER_TUI_SRC = "${jolt-native}/jolt/glimmer-tui";
Run this tree on a native half the builders made   455            FRQ_LIB_PATH = lib.makeLibraryPath (runtimeLibsFor pkgs);
          NIXGL = "${nixGLFor pkgs}/bin/nixGLIntel";
      });
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   460      apps = forEachSystem (pkgs: {
      default = {
        type = "app";
        program = "${self.packages.${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system}.frq}/bin/frq";
Paint the same screens into a terminal   465        tui = {
        type = "app";
        program = "${self.packages.${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system}.tui}/bin/frq-tui";
Build the client with Nix, not just a shell for it   469