Build releases for arm and darwin?

marcusramberg commented 3 months ago

For pre-commit hooks and such, would be nice if the releases provided binaries for the most common platforms.

infinisil commented 2 months ago

Had a team meeting today, no concrete progress, but some discussion. The notes are a bit ad-hoc :smile::

Looked into building more release artifacts
- More automated releases, could copy somewhat from https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-check-by-name/blob/main/scripts/release.sh
GitHub actions?
- Problem: No ARM
  - Could use cross compilation
  - Nix-community ARM builders?
  - Only for nix-community GitHub org
  - Larger runners?
  - Only for paid GitHub plans, not sure if NixOS org has access
Hydra (change release.nix)?
- Odd usecase of wanting a build without blocking releases, but could be done
General problem: Static build requires building GHC, takes some time, should be fine in CI though
- Could also make Hydra just build a static GHC
Dynamic executable, but nix-bundle that?
- Problem: Only supports Linux
Don't bother with static executables?
- Motivation for having them: https://github.com/NixOS/nixfmt/issues/139
Build static executable without Nix?
- Feels like a step back, less reproducible

nixos-discourse commented 2 months ago

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