fix(claude-code): preserve bun appended bundle during NixOS build
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Bun standalone executables store their JavaScript code by appending it
after the ELF sections, marked with "---- Bun! ----". The standard Nix
build process was corrupting this:

- autoPatchelfHook rewrites the entire ELF, losing appended data
- strip removes data after ELF sections
- patchelf shrink-rpath also rewrites the ELF

Fix by:
- Using dontStrip and dontPatchELF to skip automatic fixup
- Manually running patchelf --set-interpreter which modifies in-place
  without rewriting the entire file structure

This restores the binary from 99MB (bare bun runtime) to 220MB (full
claude-code application).

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

Executed-By: mayor
Role: mayor
This commit is contained in:
2026-01-19 10:39:58 -08:00
committed by John Ogle
parent c258eafe34
commit 53e3bbe78f

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@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
{ lib
, stdenv
, fetchurl
, autoPatchelfHook
, patchelf
, glibc
}:
let
@@ -38,8 +39,14 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation {
dontUnpack = true;
dontBuild = true;
# Bun standalone binaries have JS code appended after the ELF sections
# stripping/patching would remove or corrupt this appended data
dontStrip = true;
dontPatchELF = true;
nativeBuildInputs = lib.optionals stdenv.isLinux [ autoPatchelfHook ];
# Don't use autoPatchelfHook - it rewrites the ELF and strips the appended
# bun bundle (the JS code is appended after the ELF sections)
nativeBuildInputs = lib.optionals stdenv.isLinux [ patchelf ];
installPhase = ''
runHook preInstall
@@ -49,6 +56,14 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation {
runHook postInstall
'';
# Manually patch the interpreter for bun standalone binaries
# patchelf --set-interpreter modifies in-place without rewriting the entire ELF,
# preserving the appended JS bundle that bun needs at runtime
postFixup = lib.optionalString stdenv.isLinux ''
interpreter="${glibc}/lib/${if stdenv.hostPlatform.system == "aarch64-linux" then "ld-linux-aarch64.so.1" else "ld-linux-x86-64.so.2"}"
patchelf --set-interpreter "$interpreter" $out/bin/claude
'';
meta = with lib; {
description = "Terminal-based AI coding assistant from Anthropic";
homepage = "https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code";