golang-nixos-with-flake

Contents

• tutorial

Setup a non existing project from scratch in nixos

Init the project

• Add main.go file with the following content:

package main

import (
 "fmt"
)

func main() {
 fmt.Println("hello")
}

• Add a initial shell.nix file with the following content:

# shell.nix
let
  # We pin to a specific nixpkgs commit for reproducibility.
  # Check for new commits at https://status.nixos.org.
  pkgs = import (fetchTarball "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/d04953086551086b44b6f3c6b7eeb26294f207da.tar.gz") {};
in pkgs.mkShell {
  packages = [
    # select Go packages here
    pkgs.go_1_23 # desired version
  ];
}

• Configure environment to use nix, create .envrc file with the following content:

use nix

• Start go mod init

go mod init <project>

• Add module requirements and sums

go mod tidy

• Delete the shell.nix file

Follow the tutorial

• Follow the tutorial on haseebmajid.dev