nimbus-build / kickoff

A self-contained, unopinionated, fast and lightweight executable launcher.

Kickoff 🥾

A self-contained, unopinionated, fast and lightweight executable launcher.

Supported Platforms

Platform	Host	Target
aarch64-apple-macos-none	✅	✅
aarch64-pc-windows-gnu 1	❌	✅
aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu	✅	✅
x86_64-apple-macos-none	✅	✅
x86_64-pc-windows-gnu	❌	✅
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu	✅	✅

Building from source

bazel build //...
bazel run //cli -- --help

Usage Examples

Unix (host == target)

echo '{"argv": ["/bin/echo", "Hello World!"], "env": {}}' > manifest.json

kickoff create --manifest manifest.json --output hello-world

./hello-world
Hello World!

rm "manifest.json" "hello-world"

Unix (host != target)

On the host platform (e.g: aarch64-apple-macos-none):

echo {"argv": ["C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe", "/C", "echo Hello World!"], "env": {}} > manifest.json

kickoff create --manifest manifest.json --target x86_64-pc-windows-gnu --output hello-world.exe

rm "manifest.json" "hello-world.exe"

On the target platform x86_64-pc-windows-gnu:

hello-world.exe
Hello World!

License

Copyright (c) 2023 The Nimbus Authors. All rights reserved.

The use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

Footnotes

1. The Rust toolchain does not support the aarch64-pc-windows-gnu platform yet. However, aarch64 devices running Windows 11 should be able to execute the x86_64-pc-windows-gnu binaries via Windows on ARM (WoA) emulation. Windows versions older than 11 are not supported on aarch64 CPUs. ↩