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Jake Hillion ebeddfb308 mlx: build with Nix (#1285)
In order to make testing and deployment simpler and more reproducible,
we want to provide a Nix derivation for our macOS .app build. We already
build the Rust and dashboard with Nix, but so far the Python has been
blocked because we haven't had an MLX build.

This change adds a Metal compiler derivation that uses `requireFile` to
be provided a NAR of the unfree macOS Metal compiler. It is documented
how to get this file, but effectively you have to trigger the download,
mount the DMG, and NAR the result. Once this is added to the store by
hash we can build MLX using it. The MLX build itself is quite self
explanatory.

Test plan:
- CI. We follow the instructions to grab the Metal compiler. Once this
is in Cachix we should really never do this again, and I can pin the
path too to ensure it doesn't leave.
- MLX tests run as part of the MLX derivation's build. They pass.
- `NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE=1 nix build .#mlx.passthru.tests.mlxTest
--impure --option sandbox false`

---------

Co-authored-by: Ryuichi Leo Takashige <leo@exolabs.net>
2026-01-29 14:07:00 +00:00

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{
description = "The development environment for Exo";
inputs = {
nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
flake-parts = {
url = "github:hercules-ci/flake-parts";
inputs.nixpkgs-lib.follows = "nixpkgs";
};
crane.url = "github:ipetkov/crane";
fenix = {
url = "github:nix-community/fenix";
inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
};
treefmt-nix = {
url = "github:numtide/treefmt-nix";
inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
};
dream2nix = {
url = "github:nix-community/dream2nix";
inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
};
# Pinned nixpkgs for swift-format (swift is broken on x86_64-linux in newer nixpkgs)
nixpkgs-swift.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/08dacfca559e1d7da38f3cf05f1f45ee9bfd213c";
};
nixConfig = {
extra-trusted-public-keys = "exo.cachix.org-1:okq7hl624TBeAR3kV+g39dUFSiaZgLRkLsFBCuJ2NZI=";
extra-substituters = "https://exo.cachix.org";
};
outputs =
inputs:
inputs.flake-parts.lib.mkFlake { inherit inputs; } {
systems = [
"x86_64-linux"
"aarch64-darwin"
"aarch64-linux"
];
imports = [
inputs.treefmt-nix.flakeModule
./dashboard/parts.nix
./rust/parts.nix
];
perSystem =
{ config, self', inputs', pkgs, lib, system, ... }:
let
fenixToolchain = inputs'.fenix.packages.complete;
# Use pinned nixpkgs for swift-format (swift is broken on x86_64-linux in newer nixpkgs)
pkgsSwift = import inputs.nixpkgs-swift { inherit system; };
in
{
# Allow unfree for metal-toolchain (needed for Darwin Metal packages)
_module.args.pkgs = import inputs.nixpkgs {
inherit system;
config.allowUnfreePredicate = pkg: (pkg.pname or "") == "metal-toolchain";
};
treefmt = {
projectRootFile = "flake.nix";
programs = {
nixpkgs-fmt.enable = true;
ruff-format = {
enable = true;
excludes = [ "rust/exo_pyo3_bindings/exo_pyo3_bindings.pyi" ];
};
rustfmt = {
enable = true;
package = config.rust.toolchain;
};
prettier = {
enable = true;
package = self'.packages.prettier-svelte;
includes = [ "*.ts" "*.svelte" ];
};
swift-format = {
enable = true;
package = pkgsSwift.swiftPackages.swift-format;
};
};
};
checks.lint = pkgs.runCommand "lint-check" { } ''
export RUFF_CACHE_DIR="$TMPDIR/ruff-cache"
${pkgs.ruff}/bin/ruff check ${inputs.self}/
touch $out
'';
packages = lib.optionalAttrs pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin (
let
uvLock = builtins.fromTOML (builtins.readFile ./uv.lock);
mlxPackage = builtins.head (builtins.filter (p: p.name == "mlx") uvLock.package);
uvLockMlxVersion = mlxPackage.version;
in
{
metal-toolchain = pkgs.callPackage ./nix/metal-toolchain.nix { };
mlx = pkgs.callPackage ./nix/mlx.nix {
metal-toolchain = self'.packages.metal-toolchain;
inherit uvLockMlxVersion;
};
}
);
devShells.default = with pkgs; pkgs.mkShell {
inputsFrom = [ self'.checks.cargo-build ];
packages =
[
# FORMATTING
config.treefmt.build.wrapper
# PYTHON
python313
uv
ruff
basedpyright
# RUST
config.rust.toolchain
maturin
# NIX
nixpkgs-fmt
# SVELTE
nodejs
# MISC
just
jq
]
++ lib.optionals stdenv.isLinux [
unixtools.ifconfig
]
++ lib.optionals stdenv.isDarwin [
macmon
];
OPENSSL_NO_VENDOR = "1";
shellHook = ''
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:${python313}/lib"
${lib.optionalString stdenv.isLinux ''
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${openssl.out}/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
''}
'';
};
};
};
}