Struggling to use the readme - flake.lock: no such file or directory

[percolating-sirsh]

Hi

I just started today trying to follow the readme. I have not used Nix for many years and may well have screwed something up but i followed the advice in the Contributors section and used that installer you recommended.

When i try

nix flake init -t github:xataio/pgzx

At first i get what i think is an understandable error ".envrc is blocked. Run direnv allow to approve its content" -
But when i direnv allow, it seems to get into a weird state where some files are not copied to my source??

direnv: using flake
cat: flake.lock: No such file or directory
cat: flake.lock: No such file or directory
error: path '/nix/store/7sbak9b9lzq1cyp9vwskrrh13n4w14lr-source/TEST/E1/flake.nix' does not exist
cat: flake.lock: No such file or directory

While I realize this could be just because Im not familiar with Nix I'd appreciate any advice in case I dont resolve it after spending more hours.

Best,

Sirsh

[percolating-sirsh]

p.s. - i think that might have been a git thing. git state was "dirty" although i dont know enough about nix+git to deal with that. i moved to a clean folder outside of any git repo for now and it was fine as a temporary solution and maybe i can figure out how the nix+git stuff should be managed later.

now im getting an error (maybe its a mac/m1 thing)

• Added input 'pgzx/zls/zig-overlay':
    follows 'pgzx/zig-overlay'
error: builder for '/nix/store/xfhj5y6a2misdqygxvxiarprbmqakirp-zig-macos-aarch64-0.14.0-dev.1816+20e03beae.tar.xz.drv' failed with exit code 1;
       last 7 log lines:
       >
       > trying https://ziglang.org/builds/zig-macos-aarch64-0.14.0-dev.1816+20e03beae.tar.xz
       >   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
       >                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
       >   0   153    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
       > curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
       > error: cannot download zig-macos-aarch64-0.14.0-dev.1816+20e03beae.tar.xz from any mirror
       For full logs, run 'nix log /nix/store/xfhj5y6a2misdqygxvxiarprbmqakirp-zig-macos-aarch64-0.14.0-dev.1816+20e03beae.tar.xz.drv'.
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/k5s60sdxia0azayjb44y1ias2f6sfk0y-zig-0.14.0-dev.1816+20e03beae.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/ss2vid9nmz4fab34a601ijm4m2vpwl5p-nix-shell-env.drv' failed to build

[urso]

Hi, thank you for reporting the issue.

I think the problem is not the Mac (I'm testing on Mac and Linux), but the nix file from the template using an older zig development build that is not available for download anymore.
Will try to repair the issue by updating the projects dependency and fixing the template. Hope to have a fix soon.

Nix flakes require git. You don't have the files to be committed, but for nix to pick up your nix/lock files you need to run git add at least. Nix does ignore untracked files.

[percolating-sirsh]

Hi Steffan, thanks for getting back to me and explaining - ill stay tuned for an update and try again.

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