diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ce22535..5081f6a 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,3 +3,7 @@
 *.pdf
 *.html
 source.zip
+
+.aider*
+flake.lock
+
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..051f033
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+{
+  description = "Rust dev shell for building project with fontconfig and OpenGL support on nixos";
+
+  inputs = {
+    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-25.05";
+    flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
+  };
+
+  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, flake-utils }:
+    flake-utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (system:
+      let
+        pkgs = import nixpkgs {
+          inherit system;
+        };
+
+        nativeBuildInputs = with pkgs; [
+          git
+	  pkg-config
+          fontconfig
+          freetype
+          rustup
+          cmake
+          gnumake
+	  gcc
+          cargo
+          xorg.libXcursor
+          xorg.libXrandr
+          xorg.libXi
+          xorg.libX11
+          xorg.libxcb
+          libxkbcommon
+          libGL
+          libGLU
+          mesa
+          wayland
+          libglibutil
+        ];
+
+        fontconfigPcPath = "${pkgs.fontconfig.dev}/lib/pkgconfig";
+      in {
+        devShells.default = pkgs.mkShell {
+          name = "rust-fontconfig-shell";
+          packages = nativeBuildInputs;
+
+          shellHook = ''
+            export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${fontconfigPcPath}:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
+            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${pkgs.lib.makeLibraryPath nativeBuildInputs}:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+            echo "PKG_CONFIG_PATH set to: ${fontconfigPcPath}"
+            echo "LD_LIBRARY_PATH set for runtime OpenGL/GUI deps"
+          '';
+        };
+      });
+}
+