Nix Support

[aware70]

Earlier this week, support for Supercell-Wx 0.4.8 was merged into nixpkgs with NixOS/nixpkgs#316266

For those unaware, nixpkgs is a very large collection of software packaged with the Nix language. The recently added package definition for Supercell-Wx builds it from source and uses nixpkgs itself to provide many other dependencies.

Practically, this means that if you are a NixOS user you can trivially install Supercell-Wx with this configuration (just for x86_64-linux, for now):

{ pkgs, config, ... }: {
   environment.systemPackages = [
      pkgs.supercell-wx
   ];
}

If you are not on NixOS but using Nix on another OS, you can still install it from nixpkgs but would need to launch it with nixGL.

I am interested in upstreaming some of the patches I created to make this work in order to simplify future maintenance of this package in nixpkgs, but first I wanted to notify the community that Nix is now an option for installing and developing Supercell-Wx.