Pre-built binaries for different OSes #97
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I have noticed that you offer pre-built binaries. And as a matter of fact, I did download the macOS binary and it works beautifully on my Big Sur MacBook Pro. How do you do it? I've noticed that you have no relevant workflow (@ GitHub Actions), so I guess you're doing it manually? Is it generally reliable? I'm asking since I've been experimenting a bit with the idea (I mean: serving binaries, instead of asking users to install anything or re-compile everything), but not 100% sure it would work all the time... Here's a related question I posted earlier today in the Nim forum: |
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Well, the answer is here. Basically, yes, on my Macbook Air I have two cross compilers installed and configured, one for linux and one for windows, and the the of course I compile the macOS one natively. Yes I should run this on a Github workflow but never got around to it. There are macOS runners available so technically it should be possible... although setting up two cross-compiler toolchains can be quite time-consuming. |
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Awesome! My next goal is to do pretty much that, but rather automated (part of the already existing Release workflow) Let's see... :) |
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Btw, I've just found this - you may want to have a look: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/BuildServices#8-cross-compilation-and-release |
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Wonderfuuuuul! Thanks a lot, will definitely check it out! BTW, in case you run into headaches on linux... if you are looking for a self-contained, statically compiled executable, you may want to comple with musl-gcc, so that musl will be used instead of libc (which otherwise is always dynamically linked)... took me a while to get it to work, but in the end I think it's worth it! |
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I know about musl, it's just that I'm a bit cautious with this whole cross-compilation thing and doing it at a rather slow pace. Btw, I think musl is the default library used by Alpine, so I guess I'm already using it... I've also create a Docker image for Arturo (based on Alpine): Generally, super-simple to set up... |
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Well, the answer is here.
Basically, yes, on my Macbook Air I have two cross compilers installed and configured, one for linux and one for windows, and the the of course I compile the macOS one natively.
Yes I should run this on a Github workflow but never got around to it. There are macOS runners available so technically it should be possible... although setting up two cross-compiler toolchains can be quite time-consuming.