Rust Cross Compile - 1 Machine → 6 Targets (Linux/Mac/Windows Arm & x86)

Here, I'll show you how to cross-compile a Rust Programming binary to six platforms—Linux, Mac, and Windows, all on x86 and ARM—with just ONE machine.

Correction - Big thanks to @doudeman's comment below, the Windows target should be x86_64-pc-windows-msvc and NOT the *i686...*, which is the old 32bit version (see below for the corrected Windows x86 instructions).

Here is the gist with all commands (with the windows x86_64 correction): https://gist.github.com/jeremychone/5...

The machine is an Apple Silicon, MacBook Pro Mx or Studio.

00:00 - Intro
00:12 - Mac Arm (simplest)
01:51 - Mac x86
02:31 - Linux Arm
04:57 - Linux x86
06:04 - Windowx Arm
10:33 - Windows x86

This is using:

Mac/Rust host for both Arm and x86
Docker with Arm and x86 for the Linux binaries
And Parallels with Windows 11 Arm for both Arm and Windows x86 .exe

== Correction for the Windows x86 target

As noted above, use the x86_64-pc-windows-msvc for the x86 64 bit target. The i686... is for old 32 bits target (rarely what we need)

FROM WINDOWS
rustup target add x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
cargo build --release --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

FROM MAC HOST
COPYFILE_DISABLE=1 tar -czpf dist/x86_64-pc-windows-msvc/aip.tar.gz -C dist/x86_64-pc-windows-msvc aip.exe
rm dist/x86_64-pc-windows-msvc/aip.exe

I fixed my CI, all work nicely, big thanks @doudeman for the correction.

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