rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-bindgen
Provide prebuilt artifacts for ARM64 Linux
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Description
Hello again! Rustup has recently migrated (https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/pull/4154) to ARM64 Linux runners to reflect our upstream (https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup).
In the process, we have noticed (https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/pull/4154#issuecomment-2597098979) that bindgen-cli doesn't have a prebuilt artifact for aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu yet.
Fortunately, our fallback mechanism of manually building the binary from source has been successfully triggered, so this has not caused too much of a trouble for us.
That said, with the ARM64 Linux runners becoming GA for public repos (https://github.blog/changelog/2025-01-16-linux-arm64-hosted-runners-now-available-for-free-in-public-repositories-public-preview), I do imagine more workflows will benefit from precompiled artifacts for that platform.
Many thanks in advance 🙏
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating how bindgen-cli artifacts are currently built and published for existing targets, then compare that process with the aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu target. Done means the target produces a published prebuilt artifact and the existing fallback is no longer needed for ARM64 Linux workflows.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- linux, rust
- Domain
- build-system, release
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100