The repo assumed a distro with a system-wide Rust and system-wide GStreamer,
which is exactly what NixOS does not provide. This adds a flake devShell
carrying the whole dependency surface:
- Build: rustc/cargo/clippy/rustfmt, pkg-config, and clang — pipewire-sys,
libspa-sys and libpulse-sys all generate bindings with bindgen, which needs
a real libclang via LIBCLANG_PATH rather than just clang on PATH.
- Link: pipewire, libpulseaudio, and libxcb. The libxcb one is not obvious:
x11rb is declared `default-features = false` here, but Cargo unifies
features across the graph and arboard pulls x11rb with `libxcb` on, so the
final link really does need -lxcb.
- Runtime: GStreamer is driven as a SUBPROCESS, not linked, so the tools and
their plugin search path are provided here too. NixOS keeps every plugin in
its own store path, so gst-launch-1.0 finds them only through
GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH_1_0 — without it the `gst-inspect-1.0 --exists
pipewiresrc` preflight fails even with the plugins installed.
nixpkgs is pinned to nixos-26.05, the same channel the hosts run, so the
client libraries match the PipeWire daemon and PulseAudio server they talk to.
Verified: 256 tests pass, clippy clean, and `--doctor` reports all checks
passing (capture, encode, mux/audio, viewer, relay).
mollusk