build(nix): pin the Rust toolchain to 1.97.1 via rust-overlay

nixpkgs 26.05 ships rustc 1.95.0, but this crate was developed and verified on
1.97.1 (what CachyOS had, installed 2026-07-17). Taking the compiler from
oxalica/rust-overlay decouples "which Rust the project targets" from "which
release the audio stack came from", so a nixpkgs bump can no longer move the
compiler under the lint gate as a side effect.

Chosen over rustup, which would also have worked here (nix-ld is enabled, so
its prebuilt binaries run) and would have let one rust-toolchain.toml cover the
packaging distroboxes too. The deciding factor is purity: rustup records
nothing in flake.lock, so a fresh clone or darp5 would resolve whatever it
fetched that day. rust-overlay gives the same exact-version control with the
choice pinned in the lock.

`.default` is the rustup "default" profile — rustc, cargo, rust-std, rustfmt
and clippy — so those are no longer listed individually. No windows-gnu target
here: pixelpass is Linux-only, unlike peerspeak.

Verified on 1.97.1: 256 tests pass, fmt clean, and `cargo clippy --all-targets
-- -D warnings` is clean.
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2026-08-07 14:03:25 -04:00
parent 9ad55c19de
commit 911f0521f8
2 changed files with 59 additions and 15 deletions
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@@ -18,7 +18,28 @@
},
"root": {
"inputs": {
"nixpkgs": "nixpkgs"
"nixpkgs": "nixpkgs",
"rust-overlay": "rust-overlay"
}
},
"rust-overlay": {
"inputs": {
"nixpkgs": [
"nixpkgs"
]
},
"locked": {
"lastModified": 1786076960,
"narHash": "sha256-jfR6OhwurCKn1tREyfOcK/Omxf1Q/DzDDFbnEr1mBLs=",
"owner": "oxalica",
"repo": "rust-overlay",
"rev": "57a23bfaf4f7017267294b161175db1e32eb1c85",
"type": "github"
},
"original": {
"owner": "oxalica",
"repo": "rust-overlay",
"type": "github"
}
}
},
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@@ -1,16 +1,44 @@
{
description = "PixelPass P2P screen sharing CLI over iroh";
# Same channel the hosts run (nixos-config tracks nixos-26.05). The capture
# path talks to the live PipeWire daemon and the system PulseAudio server, so
# the client libraries here should come from the same release the server did.
inputs.nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-26.05";
inputs = {
# Same channel the hosts run (nixos-config tracks nixos-26.05). The capture
# path talks to the live PipeWire daemon and the system PulseAudio server,
# so the client libraries here should come from the same release the server
# did.
nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-26.05";
# The Rust toolchain is pinned SEPARATELY from the system libraries, so a
# nixpkgs bump cannot move the compiler under the lint gate. nixpkgs 26.05
# ships 1.95.0; this crate was developed and verified on 1.97.1, and
# peerspeak — the sibling project this one is built against — has a clippy
# lint that differs between exactly those two versions. Keeping both repos
# on one pinned compiler means a check that passes here passes there.
#
# This is the reproducible alternative to rustup: the same exact-version
# control, but recorded in flake.lock, so a fresh clone resolves the
# identical toolchain rather than whatever rustup fetches that day.
rust-overlay = {
url = "github:oxalica/rust-overlay";
inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
};
};
outputs =
{ nixpkgs, ... }:
{ nixpkgs, rust-overlay, ... }:
let
system = "x86_64-linux";
pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system};
pkgs = import nixpkgs {
inherit system;
overlays = [ rust-overlay.overlays.default ];
};
# Matches what CachyOS shipped (rust 1:1.97.1-1) and what peerspeak pins.
# `default` is the rustup "default" profile — rustc, cargo, rust-std,
# rustfmt and clippy — so those are NOT listed separately below. No
# windows-gnu target here: pixelpass is Linux-only (portal/PipeWire/X11
# capture), unlike peerspeak which has a Windows port.
rustToolchain = pkgs.rust-bin.stable."1.97.1".default;
# GStreamer is driven as a SUBPROCESS (gst-launch-1.0 / gst-inspect-1.0),
# not linked — there is no gstreamer-sys in Cargo.lock. So these are PATH
@@ -41,13 +69,8 @@
{
devShells.${system}.default = pkgs.mkShell {
nativeBuildInputs =
with pkgs;
[
rustc
cargo
rustfmt
clippy
[ rustToolchain ]
++ (with pkgs; [
# Debian packaging (`cargo deb --no-build`). Build the binary
# inside a Debian/Ubuntu distrobox first so it links that distro's
# glibc — see the packaging notes in Cargo.toml.
@@ -58,7 +81,7 @@
# pipewire-sys, libspa-sys and libpulse-sys all generate bindings
# with bindgen, which needs a real libclang at build time.
clang
]
])
++ gstPlugins
++ [
# The rest of what `deps::check_host_binaries` looks for.