getExe
lib.getExe
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Get the path to the main program of a package based on meta.mainProgram
Inputs
x-
1. Function argument
Type
getExe :: package -> string
Examples
lib.meta.getExe usage example
getExe pkgs.hello
=> "/nix/store/g124820p9hlv4lj8qplzxw1c44dxaw1k-hello-2.12/bin/hello"
getExe pkgs.mustache-go
=> "/nix/store/am9ml4f4ywvivxnkiaqwr0hyxka1xjsf-mustache-go-1.3.0/bin/mustache"
Noogle detected
Implementation
The following is the current implementation of this function.
getExe = x: getExe' x (x.meta.mainProgram or (
# This could be turned into an error when 23.05 is at end of life
lib.warn "getExe: Package ${lib.strings.escapeNixIdentifier x.meta.name or x.pname or x.name} does not have the meta.mainProgram attribute. We'll assume that the main program has the same name for now, but this behavior is deprecated, because it leads to surprising errors when the assumption does not hold. If the package has a main program, please set `meta.mainProgram` in its definition to make this warning go away. Otherwise, if the package does not have a main program, or if you don't control its definition, use getExe' to specify the name to the program, such as lib.getExe' foo \"bar\"."
lib.getName
x
));