nix-darwin

declarative configuration of macOS using Nix

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• Installing JDKs via nix-darwin  15 Nov 2023  nix macos java nix-darwin

  I’m in the process of moving as many of the installed packages and as much of the configuration of my Mac to nix-darwin. Among the packages that I want on my Mac are various versions of JDKs¹. The way that macOS interacts with JDKs is a bit tricky, so the standard Nix or nix-darwin install doesn’t work, but we can make it work.

  1. why, you may ask. Good question. I don’t actually know if there’s anything that I still use Java for. I used to use it for FRC, though. ↩