nix-cygwin

Building and installing the Nix Package Manager in Cygwin.

1

Install Cygwin with wget.

2

In Cygwin console execute:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MDeltaX/nix-cygwin/master/nix-install
chmod +x nix-install
./nix-install

WIP issues

Suggestions welcome!

• Binary cache downloads make Nix fail silently (workaround: nix-shell -p hello --option substitute false)
• Using newer Nixpkgs than 18.09 results in infinite recursion