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1---
2title: pkgs.mkShell
3author: zimbatm
4date: 2017-10-30
5---
6
7pkgs.mkShell is a special kind of derivation that is only useful when using
8it combined with nix-shell. It will in fact fail to instantiate when invoked
9with nix-build.
10
11## Usage
12
13```nix
14{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }:
15pkgs.mkShell {
16 # this will make all the build inputs from hello and gnutar available to the shell environment
17 inputsFrom = with pkgs; [ hello gnutar ];
18 buildInputs = [ pkgs.gnumake ];
19}
20```