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+{
+ system ? builtins.currentSystem,
+ target ? "x86_64-unknown-linux-musl",
+ release ? false,
+ git_version ? null,
+}:
+
+with import ./common.nix;
+
+let
+ crossSystem = { config = target; };
+
+ log = v: builtins.trace v v;
+
+ pkgs = import pkgsSrc {
+ inherit system crossSystem;
+ overlays = [ cargo2nixOverlay ];
+ };
+
+
+ /*
+ Rust and Nix triples are not the same. Cargo2nix has a dedicated library
+ to convert Nix triples to Rust ones. We need this conversion as we want to
+ set later options linked to our (rust) target in a generic way. Not only
+ the triple terminology is different, but also the "roles" are named differently.
+ Nix uses a build/host/target terminology where Nix's "host" maps to Cargo's "target".
+ */
+ rustTarget = log (pkgs.rustBuilder.rustLib.rustTriple pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform);
+
+ /*
+ Cargo2nix is built for rustOverlay which installs Rust from Mozilla releases.
+ We want our own Rust to avoid incompatibilities, like we had with musl 1.2.0.
+ rustc was built with musl < 1.2.0 and nix shipped musl >= 1.2.0 which lead to compilation breakage.
+ So we want a Rust release that is bound to our Nix repository to avoid these problems.
+ See here for more info: https://musl.libc.org/time64.html
+ Because Cargo2nix does not support the Rust environment shipped by NixOS,
+ we emulate the structure of the Rust object created by rustOverlay.
+ In practise, rustOverlay ships rustc+cargo in a single derivation while
+ NixOS ships them in separate ones. We reunite them with symlinkJoin.
+ */
+ rustChannel = pkgs.symlinkJoin {
+ name ="rust-channel";
+ paths = [
+ pkgs.rustPlatform.rust.rustc
+ pkgs.rustPlatform.rust.cargo
+ ];
+ };
+
+ /*
+ Cargo2nix provides many overrides by default, you can take inspiration from them:
+ https://github.com/cargo2nix/cargo2nix/blob/master/overlay/overrides.nix
+
+ You can have a complete list of the available options by looking at the overriden object, mkcrate:
+ https://github.com/cargo2nix/cargo2nix/blob/master/overlay/mkcrate.nix
+ */
+ overrides = pkgs.rustBuilder.overrides.all ++ [
+ /*
+ [1] We need to alter Nix hardening to make static binaries: PIE,
+ Position Independent Executables seems to be supported only on amd64. Having
+ this flag set either 1. make our executables crash or 2. compile as dynamic on some platforms.
+ Here, we deactivate it. Later (find `codegenOpts`), we reactivate it for supported targets
+ (only amd64 curently) through the `-static-pie` flag.
+ PIE is a feature used by ASLR, which helps mitigate security issues.
+ Learn more about Nix Hardening at: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-support/cc-wrapper/add-hardening.sh
+ */
+ (pkgs.rustBuilder.rustLib.makeOverride {
+ name = "garage";
+ overrideAttrs = drv: { hardeningDisable = [ "pie" ]; };
+ })
+
+ (pkgs.rustBuilder.rustLib.makeOverride {
+ name = "garage_rpc";
+
+ /*
+ [2] We want to inject the git version while keeping the build deterministic.
+ As we do not want to consider the .git folder as part of the input source,
+ we ask the user (the CI often) to pass the value to Nix.
+ */
+ overrideAttrs = drv:
+ (if git_version != null then {
+ preConfigure = ''
+ ${drv.preConfigure or ""}
+ export GIT_VERSION="${git_version}"
+ '';
+ } else {});
+
+ /*
+ [3] We ship some parts of the code disabled by default by putting them behind a flag.
+ It speeds up the compilation (when the feature is not required) and released crates have less dependency by default (less attack surface, disk space, etc.).
+ But we want to ship these additional features when we release Garage.
+ In the end, we chose to exclude all features from debug builds while putting (all of) them in the release builds.
+ Currently, the only feature of Garage is kubernetes-discovery from the garage_rpc crate.
+ */
+ overrideArgs = old: {
+ features = if release then [ "kubernetes-discovery" ] else [];
+ };
+ })
+
+ ];
+
+ packageFun = import ../Cargo.nix;
+
+ /*
+ We compile fully static binaries with musl to simplify deployment on most systems.
+ When possible, we reactivate PIE hardening (see above).
+
+ Also, if you set the RUSTFLAGS environment variable, the following parameters will
+ be ignored.
+
+ For more information on static builds, please refer to Rust's RFC 1721.
+ https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/1721-crt-static.html#specifying-dynamicstatic-c-runtime-linkage
+ */
+
+ codegenOpts = {
+ "armv6l-unknown-linux-musleabihf" = [ "target-feature=+crt-static" "link-arg=-static" ]; /* compile as dynamic with static-pie */
+ "aarch64-unknown-linux-musl" = [ "target-feature=+crt-static" "link-arg=-static" ]; /* segfault with static-pie */
+ "i686-unknown-linux-musl" = [ "target-feature=+crt-static" "link-arg=-static" ]; /* segfault with static-pie */
+ "x86_64-unknown-linux-musl" = [ "target-feature=+crt-static" "link-arg=-static-pie" ];
+ };
+
+in
+ /*
+ The following definition is not elegant as we use a low level function of Cargo2nix
+ that enables us to pass our custom rustChannel object. We need this low level definition
+ to pass Nix's Rust toolchains instead of Mozilla's one.
+
+ target is mandatory but must be kept to null to allow cargo2nix to set it to the appropriate value
+ for each crate.
+ */
+ pkgs.rustBuilder.makePackageSet {
+ inherit packageFun rustChannel release codegenOpts;
+ packageOverrides = overrides;
+ target = null;
+
+ buildRustPackages = pkgs.buildPackages.rustBuilder.makePackageSet {
+ inherit rustChannel packageFun codegenOpts;
+ packageOverrides = overrides;
+ target = null;
+ };
+ }