pandoc/doc/nix.md

title, author

title	author
Using NiX to develop pandoc	John MacFarlane

The source directory contains shell.nix and flake.nix, so if you have NiX installed, you can use either nix shell or nix develop can be used to obtain a shell with pandoc dependencies installed.

To set up direnv so that the NiX shell is automatically activated whenever the directory is entered, add the following .envrc in the pandoc source directory:

if ! has nix_direnv_version || ! nix_direnv_version 2.2.1; then
    source_url "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nix-community/nix-direnv/2.2.1/direnvrc" "sha256-zelF0vLbEl5uaqrfIzbgNzJWGmLzCmYAkInj/LNxvKs="
fi
use flake

This uses nix-direnv for caching. See its web page for further help.