Statically compiling postgrest

[ruslantalpa]

I think we should try and compile v3 like described here
http://begriffs.com/posts/2015-08-11-dev-deploy-haskell-docker.html
https://github.com/nilcons/ghc-musl

[PierreR]

Thanks for the pointers. I haven't watched the video yet but wouldn't be much better to have this issue fixed: http://bugs.alpinelinux.org/issues/4257

There is a risk here to get a complicated docker build process which might stop being maintained in the future. To me a much more ideal situation would be to have native alpine ghc and stack packages. Then you have the leverage to build a nice small docker image.

[PierreR]

I am also waiting for stack to offer the possibility to build inside custom small docker image automatically. Right now, only Ubuntu precise is supported (which is not an option for a small image). This is a known issue and I read somewhere that it might be fixed in a couple of weeks/months.

[PierreR]

Another alternative that does not require docker is described here:
https://ro-che.info/articles/2015-10-26-static-linking-ghc

[ruslantalpa]

The idea is not the docker thing (that is just the build env)
I was sugesting building the binary so that it does not have dependencies and its compiled with ghc that itself was built against musl so that the resulting bin is as small as posible, i doubt we depend much on things from glibc

On 15 Nov 2015, at 13:45, Pi3r notifications@github.com wrote:

Another alternative that does not require docker is described here:
https://getpocket.com/a/read/1084317437

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[begriffs]

I'm OK with building binaries for several platforms at each release. If you figure out how to make a portable statically linked binary then we can distribute that instead, but things are OK for now.

[steve-chavez]

This would be specially useful on Windows, users keep reporting problems there.

Currently we require a full PostgreSQL installation in Windows to use pgrst and when the db is in another server that dependency seems too big. I don't know a way of getting just libpq on Windows(haven't tried msys2).

[steve-chavez]

Closing in favor of #1295.