axodotdev / axodotdev/cargo-dist
Enable cross compiling on non Rustup systems
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- Rust
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Description
I and a lot of NixOs users, use [rust-overlay](https://github.com/oxalica/rust-overlay)(or fenix) to manage the installed rust toolchain, selecting and installing targets and Rust versions in our flake.nix or similiar files.
I wanted to test the musl build for our project via cargo-dist, so I did `cargo dist build` and got this warning:
```
WARN You're trying to cross-compile for musl from glibc, but I can't find rustup to ensure you have the rust toolchains for it!
```
and it only built for the current target. Can we widen that check to not use rustup, perhaps by checking for installed targets as cargo does?
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by tracing the cross-compilation check in cargo-dist that emits the rustup warning, then inspect how Cargo detects installed targets. The change is done when a NixOS or other non-Rustup setup can build the musl target instead of falling back to only the current target.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- build-system, release
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100