Not an issue but a question about muslrust HOT 3 CLOSED

Just for the record.

I managed to rewrite a limited version of libmagic in Rust so that I can now build a static library using muslrust. It was quite easy to do because I don't need to discriminate between different types of binaries, or archives aso. Means, I get what I want by doing much less analyzing work than libmagic which makes my version much faster.

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Hm, what crates require this? I've not come across this library.

Instinctively; not sure it's worth making a regular build image bigger for the smaller subset of people that want it though. Also, don't really want a bunch more C libraries in here unless they are genuinely useful in popular crates.

A solution could be to use the pattern by portier-broker and extend muslrust to compile in your libmagic, i'll gladly link to that as a solution for extra libraries at the very least!

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Crate magic requires libmagic.

The main problem I face is that I don't know exactly how to build a static libmagic. Somewhere I found file-5.34.tar.gz which contains the libmagic stuff.

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