Ship static binaries

[wucke13]

I would like to use rust-analyzer. However, most ways of obtaining it require one to use a downloaded version, which I guess is build against x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. This hurts the portability as these binaries will not work on distros like Alpine Linux or NixOS (at least without further ).

I would appreciate if the binaries will be build against the x86_64-unknown-linux-musl target in the future in order to achieve maximum compatibility. IMHO it is always wrong to ship a dynamic linked binary if static linkage is an easy option but if one exactly knows the target system (which is not the case if one binary is provided for the whole linux world).

Other than that, thank you all for the great work!

PS: For me rust-analyzer compiles against x86_64-unknown-linux-musl just fine, so this shouldn't be fairly quick fix.

[flodiebold]

Duplicate of #4354; see there and in the linked PR for why this is not possible currently.

[lnicola]

NixOS should actually work fine after #4555.

[wucke13]

Woosh, that was fast. Thanks! Though #4555 is only about VSCode, right? What about coc-rust-analyzer?

[lnicola]

coc-rust-analyzer is a fork of the Code extension, so @fannheyward might include the same changes. But indeed, it won't work today,

@fannheyward by the way, it's not very clear to me how the two extensions differ and whether it's likely for them to diverge even more or converge back.

[fannheyward]

coc-rust-analyzer adds this patch, fannheyward/coc-rust-analyzer@29d4811, releases with 0.7.2