I tried to install Makie and multiple dependencies failed to install, including SpecialFunctions, Distributions, and StatsFuns.
I put the full output and error logs in this GitLab snippet: Makie attempted install log 2026-01-11
I’m running NixOS 25.11 (Xantusia), my CPU is an Intel(R) Core™ Ultra 7 258V (8) @ 4.80 GHz, and I am using the nixos.julia package. (Unfortunately, juliaup is not available on NixOS.)
I think there have been known problems with NixOS’s Julia build. Would recommend that you install Julia via the official install script from Installing Julia. That should get you the right build…
You can try using the julia-bin package.
The current julia-bin version is newer than the julia package which is built from source. And julia-bin 1.12.3 works for me for the dependencies you mentioned. (the current julia doesn’t)