Mason fails to install nil_ls but manual installation succeeds

[a-torgovitsky]

From :Mason

          Installing crate nil@2023-08-09…
            Updating git repository `https://github.com/oxalica/nil`
          Installing nil v0.0.0 (https://github.com/oxalica/nil?tag=2023-08-09#97abe7d3)
            Updating crates.io index
           Compiling autocfg v1.1.0
           Compiling proc-macro2 v1.0.66
           Compiling unicode-ident v1.0.11
           Compiling serde v1.0.182
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           Compiling scopeguard v1.2.0
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           Compiling builtin v0.0.0 (/home/at/.cargo/git/checkouts/nil-d84aa7a39c766408/97abe7d/crates/builtin)
           Compiling url v2.4.0
           Compiling syntax v0.0.0 (/home/at/.cargo/git/checkouts/nil-d84aa7a39c766408/97abe7d/crates/syntax)
           Compiling tracing v0.1.37
           Compiling futures-io v0.3.28
           Compiling equivalent v1.0.1
           Compiling hashbrown v0.14.0
           Compiling pin-utils v0.1.0
           Compiling lazy_static v1.4.0
           Compiling paste v1.0.14
           Compiling regex-syntax v0.6.29
           Compiling indexmap v2.0.0
           Compiling parking_lot v0.11.2
        error: failed to run custom build command for `builtin v0.0.0 (/home/at/.cargo/git/checkouts/nil-d84aa7a39c766408/97abe7d/crates/builtin)`

        Caused by:
          process didn't exit successfully: `/tmp/cargo-installNOrvTg/release/build/builtin-1b75ac0035aeade3/build-script-build` (exit status: 101)
          --- stdout
          cargo:rerun-if-changed=build.rs

          --- stderr
          thread 'main' panicked at crates/builtin/build.rs:155:10:
          failed to dump builtin docs: "Command \"nix\" \"__dump-builtins\" failed: Output { status: ExitStatus(unix_wait_status(256)), stdout: \"\", stderr: \"error: '__dump-builtins' is not a recognised command\\nTry 'nix --help' for more information.\\n\" }"
          note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
        warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
        error: failed to compile `nil v0.0.0 (https://github.com/oxalica/nil?tag=2023-08-09#97abe7d3)`, intermediate artifacts can be found at `/tmp/cargo-installNOrvTg`.
        To reuse those artifacts with a future compilation, set the environment variable `CARGO_TARGET_DIR` to that path.
        spawn: cargo failed with exit code 101 and signal 0. 

However, I can successfully compile if I follow these instructions from the nil repo:

If you want to compile it from source:
Install stable Rust toolchain >= 1.70
Install nix >= 2.4 and make sure the binary nix is in your PATH.
Build and install via cargo install --git https://github.com/oxalica/nil nil

Any ideas why it won't compile through Mason?

[cospectrum]

Release tag oxalica/nil#147

[a-torgovitsky]

Thanks, good find. Do you know if there's a way to change the release tag that Mason tries to install before this gets fixed?

[cospectrum]

• Run :MasonInstall yq to install yq, which will help mason to parse yaml.
• Clone the mason registry git clone https://github.com/mason-org/mason-registry.git and place it somewhere, for example, inside ~/.config/nvim/ folder.
• Update the nil tag to 2024-08-06 inside ~/.config/nvim/mason-registry/packages/nil/package.yaml:

source:
  # renovate:versioning=loose
  id: pkg:cargo/nil@2024-08-06?repository_url=https://github.com/oxalica/nil

• Inside your nvim cfg, setup mason to use the local registry:

require('mason').setup {
  registries = {
    'file:~/.config/nvim/mason-registry',
  },
}

• Reopen nvim and install nil with mason.

[a-torgovitsky]

Thanks!