[HELP] Running sic on a managed webserver

[felixranesberger]

Hi, I want to run sic on my managed webserver, where a lot of default dependencies are not available.

The sic-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-v0.22.4.tgz release does not work, so I think I need a x86_64-unknown-linux-musl binary, because musl doesn't link the dependencies?

I'm pretty new to rust and tried to follow the following blog article, but to no success.
https://betterprogramming.pub/cross-compiling-rust-from-mac-to-linux-7fad5a454ab1

Do you think I can solve this issue by running a musl build?

Thanks for your help in advance!

[felixranesberger]

This is the error I get, when running the sic-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-v0.22.4.tgz binary.

[foresterre]

Probably musl can work.

For this, make sure you have the musl tools installed.
On Ubuntu (not sure about mac), you can install these with apt install musl-tools.
Then, you need the musl target for your current Rust toolchain: rustup target add x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.
Finally, build a sic binary by running: cargo build --release --target x86_64-unknown-linux-musl

For your convenience (but feel free to build your own of course!), I made a build with musl (latest commit though!).

sic-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl-0.22.4+7f5da4.zip

If you do want a version with an older glibc, you could also try to build on the webserver itself, or use a docker image. Considering the MSRV of sic is 1.66, you could for example try one of the official Rust 1.66.1 docker images. I couldn't quickly find an image which had glibc 2.{32, 33, 34}:

• rust:1.71-slim has debian/glibc 2.31-13+deb11u6
• rust:1.72-slim has debian/glibc 2.36-9+deb12u1

[felixranesberger]

Due to the old glibc version (2.31), we had to build a musl version inside a docker container (as you suggested).
It works for now, but I'll make sure that my hoster updates the outdated version and then I'll switch to your version.

Thanks for the quick response 👍