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> I have indeed made Docker images containing exactly one file

To anyone reading this, you need some magic compiler flags in both Rust and GoLang to make sure it's a statically compiled binary (doesn't dynamically link against GNU lib-c).

But yes, this is super neat. I also like how it reads in the docker file:

FROM scratch ...



Ah yeah, without CGO_ENABLED=0, you'll get a very cryptic error when the ELF binfmt can't find the linker binary...

Never tried it with Rust, but I look to using Rust in the future, so I guess I better find out what the flags are for Rust.

Sidenote: It's often useful to have ca certs and timezone info. At that point it's probably not a bad idea to just use Alpine and apk add those things.


By default, Rust compiles all Rust code statically, but the standard library depends on a libc. If you want to use MUSL, you can. If you bind to C libraries, you may need to configure it or not, it depends on how the wrapper is written.


Thanks for the clarification!

There was a recent HN article that did a step-by-step using rust+musl on Alpine. The "why" makes more sense now.




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