How to build artifacts? - Installation instructions missing

[marcospb19]

Hi! At the time of writing, it's not clear from the README.md how can I build FireDBG artifacts.

Can someone give me a light on this?

[tyt2y3]

In summary we bundle codelldb's binaries with our binaries. We'll try to release a script for that process.

[arduano]

Having a working build script as reference would be pretty useful, as I'm on one of the unsupported platforms (Arch linux), and was attempting to get it compiling myself. I don't mind getting my hands dirty, but yeah having a reference would be nice.

Maybe even a github workflow for automated builds sometime?

[clemarescx]

I too would like to see releases for Arch-based distros (Manjaro user here).
For the install script, to get libc++ ABI this should work for Arch-based distributions using Pacman (Garuda Linux and SteamOS also use it, but somehow are not listed):

check_pacman_install libc++abi

check_pacman_install() {
    if [[ ! $(pacman -Qs $1) ]]; then
        sudo pacman -S --noconfirm $1
    fi
}

[Speykious]

Oh well, I was gonna PR a change to the install script to add support for Arch, until I realized the provided precompiled binaries are separated per Linux distro.
From the install script, it seems that a different version of libc++abi is installed on each distro. Is there no way to just have one Linux release, or will it have to have at least one per libc++abi version?
If anything it could have an appimage.

[tyt2y3]

Yes, that's a bit of bummer. The problem is linking with libc, which is different on each distro, and we want to play safe, so we try to compile on each platform.

[connortsui20]

I was able to get Arch working by changing the install script slightly

[billy1624]

Hi all, thanks for the interest!!

We just released the Dockerfile and a guide for building FireDBG from source:

• https://github.com/SeaQL/FireDBG.for.Rust/tree/main/build
• https://github.com/SeaQL/FireDBG.for.Rust/blob/main/BUILDING.md