Binary releases of Rust targeting musl

[jimmycuadra]

The Rust 1.1.0 blog post said that nightly binary releases of Rust using musl instead of glibc on Linux were coming. I am not spotting any in this distribution index. Is this still planned for the near future? Once musl support is no longer "experimental" will binary distributions for it be featured as an alternative choice for Linux on https://www.rust-lang.org/install.html?

[SimonSapin]

It looks like musl is treated as just another cross-compilation target. So rather than separate downloads for the entire distribution I’d expect downloads of only libstd for various targets and some tooling (maybe in Cargo?) to fetch them automatically when needed.

[steveklabnik]

@jimmycuadra since this isn't a bug, would you mind opening this discussion over at https://internals.rust-lang.org? It's better for things like this.

[jimmycuadra]

@SimonSapin You need a version of the compiler built with musl support enabled to do this. What I am hoping for is an official distribution of that build so you don't have to compile rustc yourself on every new release.

Discussion continued here, per Steve's request: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/static-binary-support-in-rust/2011