Use Cross-Compile

[6543]

[dessalines]

I think the compile of openssl is one of the things the clux/muslrust images did for us.

[Nutomic]

Maybe it would be enough to install openssl-dev from distro repositories, then it can use that and doesnt need to build from source? But I dont know if that works for cross-compilation.

[6543]

No openssl cross compile do work, the ring crate is the issue

[6543]

ok cleaned up the pull now ... I have a look into the ring issue but can not promise anything

[JustinLex]

I believe we're encountering a bug with the Woodpecker configuration. Woodpecker is cloning the latest revision of lemmy-translations instead of the commit that this branch points to. (translations @ 1c42c57) Rust is then complaining that the translations are missing from the removed confirmation email feature.

I think the easiest solution here is to rebase this branch so that the rust code isn't failing during the build?

I'm really interested in having ARM64 builds working, since it reduces hosting costs a lot.

[JustinLex]

Actually, that woodpecker bug was already fixed. 980df75

@6543 I think this build will work if you rebase onto this commit.

[6543]

uh nice :)

[6543]

A simple rebase wont do it as clux/muslrust:1.67.0 dont have crosscompilung toolchain (clux/muslrust#11)

They link to https://github.com/cross-rs/cross#dockerfiles ...

So we need to test if that can be used

[JustinLex]

Hmm, maybe my (lack of) experience with Rust is showing, but could we just use docker.io/library/rust:1.67.0-alpine3.17 instead? I know I've definitely been able to compile staticlibs with just musl-dev installed on rust:alpine.

[JustinLex]

Yeah, I just some of ran the woodpecker steps manually on a docker container, and it seems to work.

Let's try swapping the image with docker.io/library/rust:1.67.0-alpine3.17 and adding apk add musl-dev openssl-dev where needed, in the steps?

[6543]

I did had that and it created a bad image ... just look at my past pulls

[6543]

Might need just be 1 or 2 lines that would fix it so i encourage everybody to look at it

[6543]

Yeah, I just some of ran the woodpecker steps manually on a docker container, and it seems to work.

Let's try swapping the image with docker.io/library/rust:1.67.0-alpine3.17 and adding apk add musl-dev openssl-dev where needed, in the steps?

I'll give it a try soon

[JustinLex]

Yeah, my attempt didn't actually work. There's some weirdness where it's pulling the x86 libraries instead of arm, I think, but I'm not very good with C compilers.

Maybe another look at cross is worth trying.

[kroese]

There are already working ARM64 images by https://github.com/ubergeek77/lemmy-docker-multiarch

[Nutomic]

Replaced by #3810