Add plugins to make Nix more extensible.

All plugins in plugin-files will be dlopened, allowing them to
statically construct instances of the various Register* types Nix
supports.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/nix-instantiate/nix-instantiate.cc b/src/nix-instantiate/nix-instantiate.cc
index e05040a42deb..dd262bea0918 100644
--- a/src/nix-instantiate/nix-instantiate.cc
+++ b/src/nix-instantiate/nix-instantiate.cc
@@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ int main(int argc, char * * argv)
 
         myArgs.parseCmdline(argvToStrings(argc, argv));
 
+        initPlugins();
+
         if (evalOnly && !wantsReadWrite)
             settings.readOnlyMode = true;