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1{
2 lib,
3 stdenv,
4 buildPackages,
5 gmp,
6 gnum4,
7
8 # Version specific args
9 version,
10 src,
11}:
12
13stdenv.mkDerivation {
14 pname = "nettle";
15
16 inherit version src;
17
18 outputs = [
19 "out"
20 "dev"
21 ];
22 outputBin = "dev";
23
24 depsBuildBuild = [ buildPackages.stdenv.cc ];
25 nativeBuildInputs = [ gnum4 ];
26 propagatedBuildInputs = [ gmp ];
27
28 configureFlags =
29 # runtime selection of HW-accelerated code; it's default since 3.7
30 [ "--enable-fat" ]
31 # Make sure the right <gmp.h> is found, and not the incompatible
32 # /usr/include/mp.h from OpenSolaris. See
33 # <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/hydra-users/2012-08/msg00000.html>
34 # for details.
35 ++ lib.optional stdenv.hostPlatform.isSunOS "--with-include-path=${gmp.dev}/include";
36
37 doCheck = (stdenv.hostPlatform.system != "i686-cygwin" && !stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin);
38
39 enableParallelBuilding = true;
40
41 patches = lib.optional (stdenv.hostPlatform.system == "i686-cygwin") ./cygwin.patch;
42
43 meta = with lib; {
44 description = "Cryptographic library";
45
46 longDescription = ''
47 Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit
48 easily in more or less any context: In crypto toolkits for
49 object-oriented languages (C++, Python, Pike, ...), in
50 applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel space. In
51 most contexts, you need more than the basic cryptographic
52 algorithms, you also need some way to keep track of available
53 algorithms, their properties and variants. You often have
54 some algorithm selection process, often dictated by a protocol
55 you want to implement.
56
57 And as the requirements of applications differ in subtle and
58 not so subtle ways, an API that fits one application well can
59 be a pain to use in a different context. And that is why
60 there are so many different cryptographic libraries around.
61
62 Nettle tries to avoid this problem by doing one thing, the
63 low-level crypto stuff, and providing a simple but general
64 interface to it. In particular, Nettle doesn't do algorithm
65 selection. It doesn't do memory allocation. It doesn't do any
66 I/O.
67 '';
68
69 license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
70
71 homepage = "https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/";
72
73 platforms = platforms.all;
74 maintainers = [ maintainers.vcunat ];
75 };
76}