[steeleduncan]

Looks great, Nix-with-Lua that also supports Windows would be amazing. Two questions if I may

- Does this sandbox builds the way flakes do?

- What is MinGW used for on Windows? Does this rely on the MinGW userland, or is it just because it would be painful to write a full bootstrap for a windows compiler while also developing Zb?

Also, its great to see the live-bootstrap in there. I love the purity of how Guix's packages are built, and I like the idea Zb will be that way from the start

[zombiezen]

Nix sandboxes derivation runs on Linux even without flakes, and I'm planning on implementing that, yes: https://github.com/256lights/zb/issues/29 and https://github.com/256lights/zb/issues/31

MinGW is used to build Lua using cgo. I'd like to remove that part, see https://github.com/256lights/zb/issues/28 I haven't started the userspace for Windows yet (https://github.com/256lights/zb/issues/6), but I suspect that it will be more "download the Visual C++ compiler binary from this URL" than the Linux source bootstrap.

Yeah, I'm happy with live-bootstrap, too! I tried emulating Guix's bootstrap, but it depended a little too much on Scheme for me to use as-is. live-bootstrap has mostly worked out-of-the-box, which was a great validation test for this approach.

[steeleduncan]

Thanks for answering and I really hope it works out. A Nix alternative with less friction would be very welcome!