frida.nix

a nixos flake to compile frida 16.0.11 from source (i don't plan on updating it, but you're free to send prs).

warning

vendoring is used extensively by frida devs, so this will take up a lot of disk space! (relatively speaking)

license

0bsd, except v8.nix (taken from nixpkgs) and all package.json files (taken from frida), except package.json from gumjs-runtime is 0bsd too

faq

• q: is this done the proper way?
• a: no, this is done in an utterly stupid way. basically, i combine all vendored static dependencies into one .a file so it can be used with python
• q: why???
• a: i couldn't find another way to make it link all the symbols properly. you're welcome to help (overriding linker flags could be the answer)
• q: so i can't use it in my own c programs because of potential symbol conflicts?
• a: you can because the symbols aren't exported from the .so (well at least i hope so). worst case you can dlopen it
• q: why not dynamic?
• a: there are dynamic builds for frida-gum, but not frida-core since it can't be built dynamically due to... a bug? whatever
• q: will you upstream this to nixpkgs?
• a: this is 0bsd so feel free to do it! i don't want to deal with this vendored mess
• q: some of frida's deps are basically the same as upstream code, why did you keep them vendored?
• a: for whatever reason they don't work without static linking