Add more support for targets

[Douile]

cross seems to be a good way to support more targets easily, they have a docker image

[fcsonline]

I have seen that right now there is no support arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi, and it would be awesome to have.

👍 to use cross to support much more targets.

[Canvas02]

An arm build for mac os would be great for M1

[de-sh]

cross seems to be a good way to support more targets easily, they have a docker image

I believe the main blocker here is the fact that cross uses docker images to host all necessary linker dependencies(CC, AR) and requires access to the docker daemon, which we do not have in the case of GitHub actions, if I am not wrong.

[theHamsta]

Cross seems to use different targets in their CI https://github.com/cross-rs/cross/blob/main/.github/workflows/ci.yml

[Douile]

By moving to a composite action (https://docs.github.com/en/actions/creating-actions/creating-a-composite-action) instead of a docker action it may be possible to deterministically choose a docker image to use.

[Douile]

A design for implementing this could be:

• Maintain a subset of actions for each target (essentially just base on the cross docker image and call build)

In main action:

1. Select and call subaction based on target (pass through settings)
2. Upload output

[larsnaesbye]

An arm build for mac os would be great for M1

I agree! 'aarch64-apple-darwin' would be much preferable for performance reasons. Rosetta 2 is OK, but of course emulation eats cycles,

[larsnaesbye]

@Douile - Wouldn't it be possible to compile for aarch64-apple-darwin with a macOS SDK 11.x SDK, since ARM support began with macOS 11? One could be taken from here: https://github.com/phracker/MacOSX-SDKs/releases/download/11.3/MacOSX11.3.sdk.tar.xz
Since older versions are no longer supported, maybe that's another reason to move to a newer SDK as well.

[Douile]

https://github.com/houseabsolute/actions-rust-cross seems to implement this behaviour. although without the included upload for releases. However this can be implemented with other actions in a more modular way.