Sébastien Lerique writes:
> Now my wish is to find ways to collaborate with others on this kind of > project, who unfortunately often use macOS. I was exploring the > possibility of Guix on Darwin, but the best way to do that looks like > running Guix System inside Docker: > I haven't tried with MacOS yet but a few ideas: - Try using the QEMU image available (or create your own VirtualBox image - I've tried this and it worked OK). - If running a full graphical env is too clunky for you could experiment with multipass. I haven't tried this yet on multipass but I've had some success running Guix inside WSL2 (very similar to multipass) on Windows using busybox and these instructions: https://github.com/giuliano108/guix-packages/blob/master/notes/Guix-on-WSL2.md It's a bit 'beta', but I use this when I want fast local access to a Guix environment from a Windows desktop without having yet-another-foreign-distro (eg Ubuntu-on-WSL) in-between. - I'm not expert on this but I suspect you could produce a slimmed down version of Guix more akin to the WSL experience using the 'guix system vm-image' command. Check-out the manual. Having something that worked with multipass and WSL2 directly on the Guix website would be extremely useful in drawing a crowd from non-Linux users! So this would be a noble endeavour IMHO. If you get anything working I'd be very interested. Of course this isn't substitute for running on Darwin as a foreign distro, but I'm unaware of any current project to do that. I suspect it would be challenging to get package definitions working for substantially different compiler flags etc, it would almost become a separate project. It has been discussed tho - follow the links in this post to see discussions on guix-devel too: https://www.reddit.com/r/GUIX/comments/c2xei5/any_way_to_have_guix_running_as_a_package_manager/
