Cross Compiling Gem

[JChaput]

Hi, Is there a way to cross precompile the gem for linux and OSX? So i could only provided the compiled gem instead of rebuilding it on every server or dev machine ...

Thanks

[Peter Wagenet]

The long term plan would be for the Rust portion to be pre-compiled. We definitely don't want to require end-users of a distributed gem to have to have the Rust compiler.

[Shaker Islam]

Hi @wagenet @chancancode!

I'm really interested in this as well, and I see there's a roadmap item that's maybe related: https://usehelix.com/roadmap#binary-distribution

Is there a list of defined tasks to pick off of to make this happen? I have a "10% time to do other things" at work, and I'd love to dedicate it to improving binary distribution for Helix as it feels like that'd be a huge win.

[Shaker Islam]

bump!