diff --git a/flake.lock b/flake.lock
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+{
+  "nodes": {
+    "flake-utils": {
+      "inputs": {
+        "systems": "systems"
+      },
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1731533236,
+        "narHash": "sha256-l0KFg5HjrsfsO/JpG+r7fRrqm12kzFHyUHqHCVpMMbI=",
+        "owner": "numtide",
+        "repo": "flake-utils",
+        "rev": "11707dc2f618dd54ca8739b309ec4fc024de578b",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "numtide",
+        "repo": "flake-utils",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    },
+    "nixpkgs": {
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1741010256,
+        "narHash": "sha256-WZNlK/KX7Sni0RyqLSqLPbK8k08Kq7H7RijPJbq9KHM=",
+        "owner": "NixOS",
+        "repo": "nixpkgs",
+        "rev": "ba487dbc9d04e0634c64e3b1f0d25839a0a68246",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "NixOS",
+        "ref": "nixos-unstable",
+        "repo": "nixpkgs",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    },
+    "root": {
+      "inputs": {
+        "flake-utils": "flake-utils",
+        "nixpkgs": "nixpkgs",
+        "rust-overlay": "rust-overlay"
+      }
+    },
+    "rust-overlay": {
+      "inputs": {
+        "nixpkgs": [
+          "nixpkgs"
+        ]
+      },
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1741141853,
+        "narHash": "sha256-FauVtC+FbOgkKpGVuQTNxSqrvgbmVc7hFkjn/DacwMo=",
+        "owner": "oxalica",
+        "repo": "rust-overlay",
+        "rev": "02edad1f19d6dec824e0812e4cdc0aa7930ff8ae",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "oxalica",
+        "repo": "rust-overlay",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    },
+    "systems": {
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1681028828,
+        "narHash": "sha256-Vy1rq5AaRuLzOxct8nz4T6wlgyUR7zLU309k9mBC768=",
+        "owner": "nix-systems",
+        "repo": "default",
+        "rev": "da67096a3b9bf56a91d16901293e51ba5b49a27e",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "nix-systems",
+        "repo": "default",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "root": "root",
+  "version": 7
+}
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
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+{
+  description = "cddl-codegen: Generate Rust, WASM and JSON code from CDDL specifications";
+
+  inputs = {
+    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
+    flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
+    rust-overlay = {
+      url = "github:oxalica/rust-overlay";
+      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
+    };
+  };
+
+  outputs = {
+    nixpkgs,
+    flake-utils,
+    rust-overlay,
+    ...
+  }:
+    flake-utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (
+      system: let
+        pkgs = import nixpkgs {
+          overlays = [(import rust-overlay)];
+          inherit system;
+        };
+
+        rustToolchain = pkgs.rust-bin.nightly.latest.default;
+
+        nativeBuildInputs = with pkgs; [
+          rustToolchain
+          pkg-config
+          which
+          rustfmt
+          makeWrapper
+        ];
+      in {
+        devShells.default = pkgs.mkShell {
+          buildInputs = nativeBuildInputs;
+        };
+
+        packages.default = pkgs.rustPlatform.buildRustPackage {
+          pname = "cddl-codegen";
+          version = "0.1.0";
+          src = ./.;
+
+          inherit nativeBuildInputs;
+
+          cargoLock = {
+            lockFile = ./Cargo.lock;
+            allowBuiltinFetchGit = true;
+          };
+
+          # the regular tests don't run yet
+          checkPhase = ''
+            cargo test comment_ast
+          '';
+
+          postInstall = ''
+            wrapProgram $out/bin/cddl-codegen \
+              --set PATH ${pkgs.lib.makeBinPath [pkgs.rustfmt pkgs.which]} \
+              --add-flags "--static-dir ${./static}"
+          '';
+
+          meta = with pkgs.lib; {
+            description = "Codegen serialization logic for CBOR automatically from a CDDL specification";
+            homepage = "https://github.com/dcSpark/cddl-codegen";
+            license = licenses.mit;
+            maintainers = [];
+          };
+        };
+      }
+    );
+}