[njaremko]

(I’m the author) The issue isn’t nix builds in general, those work fine on MacOS, the issue is cross compiling a Linux docker image, which can be much trickier. I usually end up just relying on the github CI to build it, but nix has some nice remote builder functionality that might also be worth looking into.

[flurie]

Thanks for the post. I've been meaning to write up remote nix builders on macOS, especially now that going cross-OS (and cross-arch) is increasingly common, though still possible! Perhaps I'll try your tutorial with my builders and see how it goes.