Fix build on aarch64-darwin

[jdahm]

Removes -Clink-arg=-Wl,--no-rosegment and adds -mno-outline-atomics and stackprotector on Darwin and aarch64.

To do:

• decide whether to enable -Wl,--no-rosegment on non-aarch64 arches.

[the-mikedavis]

This is looking good to me on x86_64-linux 👍

Does this fix the flake install for you, or just cargo build from within the nix develop shell?

[jdahm]

Not quite... but it's so close! So far only fixes the cargo build in the nix develop shell. The flake build errors with:

error: builder for '/nix/store/bhx9cbs89vnvr2cxlvlwan2n2z30wh3p-helix-term-0.6.0.drv' failed with exit code 101;
       last 10 log lines:
       >           ld: warning: could not create compact unwind for _ts_node__prev_sibling.constprop.0: register 73 saved somewhere other than in frame
       >           Undefined symbols for architecture arm64:
       >             "___aarch64_ldadd4_acq_rel", referenced from:
       >                 _ts_subtree_retain in libtree_sitter-64cf1c9f9303e665.rlib(lib.o)
       >                 _ts_subtree_release in libtree_sitter-64cf1c9f9303e665.rlib(lib.o)
       >           ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture arm64
       >           clang-11: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

-mno-outline-atomics removed this link issue when using cargo in the development shell. So, it seems like the flake build isn't picking up that environment variable. Do you know how to add custom flags to the cargo build?

[jdahm]

There are a few methods as mentioned in the docs, including adding it to the configuration for a specific target here https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html#configuration-format. Another option is setting that as an environment variable, which seems less "pure" in the nix sense. What do you think?

[the-mikedavis]

I would probably experiment with an environment variable (you should be able to set one within helix-term like we do here), but the cargo config might be ideal so other packagers don't have to deal with the same problem.

[archseer]

Can we still enable -Clink-arg=-Wl,--no-rosegment on Linux? I added this in order to get proper flamegraph stack traces: https://github.com/flamegraph-rs/flamegraph#cargo-flamegraph

[jdahm]

Yes, I can definitely add that back. I didn't know the reason behind adding it, but that makes sense to continue doing that while it's required for LLD. Reference: flamegraph-rs/flamegraph#157.

I'll try to find time to wrap this up this week.

[jdahm]

I found that telling nix-cargo-integration to use clang on MacOS fixes almost all the problems without having to hack custom flags. My current issue is figuring out how to set packageMetadata.nix.cCompiler = clang (or equivalent setting in Cargo.toml) when the system is darwin. Discussing that over in yusdacra/nix-cargo-integration#65.

[jdahm]

nix run . is giving me a strange error on this branch: error: Cannot find source for helix-term:0.6.0. @the-mikedavis have you seen that one?

[the-mikedavis]

Hmm I see the same when doing nix build on this branch. I haven't seen that elsewhere though. It looks from the trace like it's from within dream2nix, maybe it's something to do with the update to nix-cargo-integration?

[yusdacra]

I can build this branch on the latest nix-cargo-integration (on a x86_64-linux machine, though). Whatever the issue related to sources was, it seems to be fixed.

[jdahm]

@yusdacra thanks for checking that! I guess that means we should get this merged. I'm on vacation right now and away from my computer, so I can't get to this until next week. I gave you access to my fork in case you'd rather do that sooner.

[the-mikedavis]

This branch builds for me (x86_64-linux) and when rebased on master. Let's merge as-is since it's a nice bump of the dependencies and the changes aren't scary.

Could you give this a try on your M1 machine @jdahm? No rush of course, please enjoy your vacation 😀

[the-mikedavis]

Thanks for your help here and in nix-cargo-integration @yusdacra!