At the moment we have binaries built with Nix that are using whatever version of glibc that Nix is currently providing. That's great if you're running on a recent Linux distro which has a compatible glibc. So for example, the binaries currently run on Ubuntu 24.04 onwards.
We also have bundles built by Nix. These are self-extracting binaries that should run really widely because they bundle Nix dependencies. They are a little untidy because they unpack into /tmp and are slow on first start.
Consider how we can widen platform support without the issues of self-extracting binaries.
@ThetaSinner I'd prefer not to build outside of Nix as well as building in Nix. If possible, I'd like a solution that doesn't require maintaining two build systems for the binaries. However, Nix doesn't really support swapping out glibc in any well-documented ways. None of the ways I've tried have worked. So that might be the best option.
At the moment we have binaries built with Nix that are using whatever version of glibc that Nix is currently providing. That's great if you're running on a recent Linux distro which has a compatible glibc. So for example, the binaries currently run on Ubuntu 24.04 onwards.
We also have bundles built by Nix. These are self-extracting binaries that should run really widely because they bundle Nix dependencies. They are a little untidy because they unpack into
/tmpand are slow on first start.Consider how we can widen platform support without the issues of self-extracting binaries.
@ThetaSinner I'd prefer not to build outside of Nix as well as building in Nix. If possible, I'd like a solution that doesn't require maintaining two build systems for the binaries. However, Nix doesn't really support swapping out glibc in any well-documented ways. None of the ways I've tried have worked. So that might be the best option.