Build & Share a C App with Nix on GitHub

This video shows you how to build a C application locally, and then package it up so that others can simply copy-and-paste a Nix config snippet to install it from GitHub onto their computers. You don't have to "know a guy" to get it onto Nixpkgs - you can do everything completely from source, dynamically downloaded from GitHub!

Article/code for this video: https://github.com/pagekey/education/tree/main/176-Nix-Package-C

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:06 DEMO - What We're Building
0:53 Overview
1:16 PageKey: Take Back Tech
1:59 1. Creating the C Application (Directory Tree)
2:08 1. Creating the C Application (main.c)
2:15 1. Creating the C Application (default.nix)
3:33 1. Creating the C Application (DEMO)
3:46 2. Running in NixOS Locally (configuration.nix)
4:39 2. Running in NixOS Locally (DEMO)
4:56 3. Testing Using default.nix
6:28 3. Testing Using default.nix (DEMO)
6:41 4. Building from GitHub
7:16 4. Building from GitHub (default.nix - app)
7:37 4. Building from GitHub (default.nix - testbed)
9:04 4. Building from GitHub (DEMO)
9:40 4. Building from GitHub (Testing on NixOS)
10:04 That's it!

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