Doesn't build in NixOS 20.03

[Xe]

I'm trying to play with deno but the binary doesn't work on NixOS:

$ ./deno
Failed to execute process './deno'. Reason:
The file './deno' does not exist or could not be executed.

LDD reports this:

$ ldd ./deno
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffece497000)
        libdl.so.2 => /nix/store/9hy6c2hv8lcwc6clnc1p2jf09cs5q9dp-glibc-2.30/lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f4beb10d000)
        librt.so.1 => /nix/store/9hy6c2hv8lcwc6clnc1p2jf09cs5q9dp-glibc-2.30/lib/librt.so.1 (0x00007f4beb103000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /nix/store/9hy6c2hv8lcwc6clnc1p2jf09cs5q9dp-glibc-2.30/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f4beb0e2000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /nix/store/9hy6c2hv8lcwc6clnc1p2jf09cs5q9dp-glibc-2.30/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f4beb0c8000)
        libc.so.6 => /nix/store/9hy6c2hv8lcwc6clnc1p2jf09cs5q9dp-glibc-2.30/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f4beaf09000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /nix/store/9hy6c2hv8lcwc6clnc1p2jf09cs5q9dp-glibc-2.30/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f4bed6ae000)
        libm.so.6 => /nix/store/9hy6c2hv8lcwc6clnc1p2jf09cs5q9dp-glibc-2.30/lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f4beadc9000)

And additionally when I try to build deno from source I get this rust error:

$ cargo build --release
error: failed to run custom build command for `rusty_v8 v0.4.2`

Caused by:
  process didn't exit successfully: `/home/cadey/code/denoland/deno/target/debug/build/rusty_v8-0e9eed1354c7b305/build-script-build` (exit code: 101)
--- stdout
static lib URL: https://github.com/denoland/rusty_v8/releases/download/v0.4.2/librusty_v8_debug_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.a
cargo:rustc-link-search=/home/cadey/code/denoland/deno/target/debug/gn_out/obj
Downloading https://github.com/denoland/rusty_v8/releases/download/v0.4.2/librusty_v8_debug_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.a

--- stderr
thread 'main' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Os { code: 2, kind: NotFound, message: "No such file or directory" }', src/libcore/result.rs:1188:5
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace.

warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
error: build failed

I'm not entirely sure what could be failing here, but whatever it is it's making this not work for me. I'm using NixOS 20.03:

$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME=NixOS
ID=nixos
VERSION="20.03.1822.5adf2a6c116 (Markhor)"
VERSION_CODENAME=markhor
VERSION_ID="20.03.1822.5adf2a6c116"
PRETTY_NAME="NixOS 20.03 (Markhor)"
LOGO="nix-snowflake"
HOME_URL="https://nixos.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://nixos.org/learn.html"
SUPPORT_URL="https://nixos.org/community.html"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues"

Do you have any ideas as to why this is failing?

[SyrupThinker]

You need to change the dynamic linker in the prebuilt binary.
For the build you need to have the following dependencies available:

nodejs
rustChannels.stable.rust
python2

Additionally here is the current packaging effort.

[SyrupThinker]

The following is my derivation for the prebuilt binary

{ autoPatchelfHook, fetchurl, stdenv, unzip }:

stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
  name = "deno-bin-${version}";
  version = "1.0.0";

  src = fetchurl {
    url = "https://github.com/denoland/deno/releases/download/v${version}/deno-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.zip";
    sha256 = "0aknxy9z5cvw091yaw5yf2zynwzxs39ax3jkqdg10xw344jsyn31";
  };

  nativeBuildInputs = [
    autoPatchelfHook
    unzip
  ];

  unpackPhase = ''
    unzip $src
  '';
  
  installPhase = ''
    install -m755 -D deno $out/bin/deno
  '';

  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
    homepage = https://deno.land;
    description = "A secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript";
    platforms = platforms.linux;
  };
}

[06kellyjac]

@Xe as @SyrupThinker has said already you needed to use the patchELF tool link

When you've got a binary that looks like the right architecture according to file's output & all the libs are linked according to ldd's output, this is usually the last step to making the binary work 🙂

[06kellyjac]

Are you happy to close this issue or is there anything else we can help you with?