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Title: Guix: easily run Linux binaries |
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Author: Solène |
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Date: 10 June 2021 |
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Tags: guix |
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Description: |
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# Introduction |
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For those who used Guix or Nixos you may know that running a binary |
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downloaded from the internet will fail, this is because most expected |
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paths are different than the usual Linux distributions. |
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I wrote a simple utility to help fixing that, I called it |
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"guix-linux-run", inspired by the "steam-run" command from NixOS |
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(although it has no relation to Steam). |
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Gitlab project guix-linux-run |
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# How to use |
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Clone the git repository and make the command linux-run executable, |
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install packages gcc-objc++:lib and gtk+ (more may be required later). |
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Call "~/guix-linux-run/linux-run ./some_binary" and enjoy. |
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If you get an error message like "libfoobar" is not available, try to |
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install it with the package manager and try again, this is simply |
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because the binary is trying to use a library that is not available in |
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your library path. |
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In the project I wrote a simple compatibility list from a few |
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experiments, unfortunately it doesn't run everything and I still have |
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to understand why, but it permitted me to play a few games from itch.io |
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so it's a start. |
