Build error in vscode dev container

[DreamTexX]

I run into errors when trying to build/use the library in a nightly project inside an docker container (visual studio code dev container).

Cargo tells me the following when trying to build.

error: failed to run custom build command for `libffi-sys v2.1.0`
note: To improve backtraces for build dependencies, set the CARGO_PROFILE_DEV_BUILD_OVERRIDE_DEBUG=true environment variable to enable debug information generation.

Caused by:
  process didn't exit successfully: `/workspaces/serverless/target/debug/build/libffi-sys-5ecfe1cce31411db/build-script-build` (exit status: 101)
  --- stdout
  checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
  checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
  checking target system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
  continue configure in default builddir "./x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
  ....exec /bin/bash ../configure "--srcdir=.." "--enable-builddir=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" "linux
  gnu"

  --- stderr
  ../configure: line 2251: config.log: No such file or directory
  ../configure: line 2261: config.log: No such file or directory
  cat: standard output: No such file or directory
  thread 'main' panicked at 'Configuring libffi', /usr/local/cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/libffi-sys-2.1.0/build/common.rs:8:5
  stack backtrace:
     0: rust_begin_unwind
               at /rustc/2036fdd24f77d607dcfaa24c48fbe85d3f785823/library/std/src/panicking.rs:577:5
     1: core::panicking::panic_fmt
               at /rustc/2036fdd24f77d607dcfaa24c48fbe85d3f785823/library/core/src/panicking.rs:67:14
     2: core::panicking::panic_display
     3: build_script_build::common::run_command
     4: build_script_build::not_msvc::configure_libffi
     5: build_script_build::not_msvc::build_and_link
     6: build_script_build::main
     7: core::ops::function::FnOnce::call_once
  note: Some details are omitted, run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=full` for a verbose backtrace.

Versions:

rustc 1.70.0-nightly (2036fdd24 2023-03-27)
cargo 1.70.0-nightly (145219a9f 2023-03-27)

Environment:

Container Image: mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/rust:0-1-bullseye
(Guess it is debian because of the bullseye)

If any other information is needed, please tell me. It builds finde on my linux machine (arch) and on windows direct, only inside the container it does not build.

[yorickpeterse]

Judging by the output it seems the build system thinks the environment is a Linux environment, but perhaps Microsoft is stripping the commands/dependencies needed to run the configure script. Unfortunately I don't think there's anything we can help with here, as we don't control the container image in question.

[yorickpeterse]

Closing this because there's nothing that we can do about this as far as I can tell.