ElementsProject / ElementsProject/lightning
Support selective plugin builds by passing an array of plugins to `make`
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Description
Currently, `make` builds all plugins defined in Cargo.toml’s workspace, even when only a subset is needed. This increases build time unnecessarily, especially for users who only require specific plugins.
We can pass an argument to `make` that accepts a space-separated list of plugins to compile, skipping unnecessary ones.
Example Usage:
```bash
# Build only grpc and rest plugins
make RUST_PLUGINS="cln-grpc-plugin clnrest"
# Default: build all plugins if none specified
make
```
Reference:
By "Hosted Marcellus" on Discord:
```
Recent versions of CLN take a very long time to build in my VPS due to the Rust binaries.
Of these I'm only really interested in cln-rest, is there any way to tell the build process to
not try to build the others?
Currently I'm just doing "make RUST_PROFILE=release"
```
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