rust-musl-cross
Docker images for compiling static Rust binaries using musl-cross-make, inspired by rust-musl-builder
Prebuilt images
Currently we have the following prebuilt Docker images on Docker Hub.
Rust toolchain | Cross Compile Target | Docker Image Tag |
---|---|---|
stable | aarch64-unknown-linux-musl | aarch64-musl |
stable | arm-unknown-linux-musleabi | arm-musleabi |
stable | arm-unknown-linux-musleabihf | arm-musleabihf |
stable | armv5te-unknown-linux-musleabi | armv5te-musleabi |
stable | armv7-unknown-linux-musleabi | armv7-musleabi |
stable | armv7-unknown-linux-musleabihf | armv7-musleabihf |
stable | i586-unknown-linux-musl | i586-musl |
stable | i686-unknown-linux-musl | i686-musl |
stable | mips-unknown-linux-musl | mips-musl |
stable | mipsel-unknown-linux-musl | mipsel-musl |
stable | x86_64-unknown-linux-musl | x86_64-musl |
To use armv7-unknown-linux-musleabihf
target for example, first pull the image:
docker pull messense/rust-musl-cross:armv7-musleabihf
Then you can do:
alias rust-musl-builder='docker run --rm -it -v "$(pwd)":/home/rust/src messense/rust-musl-cross:armv7-musleabihf'
rust-musl-builder cargo build --release
This command assumes that $(pwd)
is readable and writable. It will output binaries in armv7-unknown-linux-musleabihf
. At the moment, it doesn't attempt to cache libraries between builds, so this is best reserved for making final release builds.
How it works
rust-musl-cross
uses musl-libc, musl-gcc with the help of musl-cross-make to make it easy to compile, and the new rustup target
support. It includes static versions of several libraries:
- The standard
musl-libc
libraries. - OpenSSL, which is needed by many Rust applications.
Making OpenSSL work
If your application uses OpenSSL, you will also need to take a few extra steps to make sure that it can find OpenSSL's list of trusted certificates, which is stored in different locations on different Linux distributions. You can do this using openssl-probe
as follows:
extern crate openssl_probe;
fn main() {
openssl_probe::init_ssl_cert_env_vars();
//... your code
}
Use beta/nightly Rust
Currently we install stable Rust by default, if you want to switch to beta/nightly Rust, you can do it by extending from our Docker image, for example to use beta Rust for target x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
:
FROM messense/rust-musl-cross:x86_64-musl
RUN rustup update beta && \
rustup target add --toolchain beta x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
Strip binaries
You can use the musl-strip
command inside the image to strip binaries, for example:
docker run --rm -it -v "$(pwd)":/home/rust/src messense/rust-musl-cross:armv7-musleabihf musl-strip /home/rust/src/target/release/example
License
Licensed under The MIT License