The problem is using the build system. Using Nix flakes could help alleviate a lot of concerns, I wrapped a target meant for debian. After wrapping it with a flake, it worked on NixOS. But since I'm building it declaratively and not imperatively, it could target any distribution, even mac. I've done this with Bitwig, https://github.com/ArikRahman/Nixwig and Jank lang (https://github.com/jank-lang/jank) in this PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/523741