Request from an alpine musl build

[belgattitude]

Hello, I'm trying out duckdb-neo... Got some issues with alpine.

In the meantime I moved my docker images to bookworm-slim, but I still feel alpine is widely used and could help adoption.

You can have a look or reproduce with the docker images located in

https://github.com/belgattitude/flowblade/tree/main/examples/apps/nextjs-app/docker

Note that in order for them to work, the #127 should be included.

[jraymakers]

Agree this would be desirable; it's not the first time I've heard this request.

Unfortunately it's not possible at this moment, because DuckDB doesn't release official binaries for Alpine/musl. Node Neo depends on official binaries. There's an open request for this, and I suspect it might happen, though I don't know when. If/when it does, I'll be happy to extend Node Neo support to that platform, assuming I can figure out how to make the build work. (Since I don't think there are GitHub runners with Alpine, it will likely require cross-compilation, something I did for Linux arm64 but am still learning about.)

[belgattitude]

Thank you for the answer. Makes sense

[belgattitude]

Saw that 1.2.0 comes with musl build for amd64. When time comes I’d be happy to help to support.

I’m basically interested to test difference in performance and memory between the targets. So nothing really needed

[jraymakers]

Now that it's out, I'm looking into the details of 1.2.0's support for musl, and what it would take to support it in Node Neo. In particular, I'm trying to understand if there are official binaries or not. If you learn anything interesting, let me know.

[jraymakers]

Some details of the musl support were clarified:

Note that DuckDB binaries (e.g., the CLI client) are not yet distributed for musl platforms, so you have to build them from source.

This unfortunately is going to make supporting musl in Node Neo harder. I don't really want to get into the business of building and distributing musl binaries myself.

[belgattitude]

Totally fair. I should have checked the details.

Just dropping a comment as a reminder. The detect-libc might help as there isn't a process.libc in node. When times comes, it can be used in the index.js file.

[jraymakers]

Thanks for the pointer (about detect-libc). I agree that might be useful when the binaries are available.