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Summary of cross build NAPI-RS packages

NAPI-RS is aiming to provide a complete solution for building Node.js native addons, especially for enterprise users.

For the open-source projects on GitHub, NAPI-RS provided out-of-box CI/CD support for building and publishing prebuilt binaries for Windows, Linux macOS and FreeBSD with the release of NAPI-RS v2. There are also many users who are using self-hosted CI and want to build native addons for multiple platforms on a single system (mostly Linux). NAPI-RS v2 provides a solution for this use case.

There is a demo project for those users who want to build multi-platform addons on a single system. The CI of this project builds NAPI-RS packages on a GitHub Linux CI, and produces addons for the following platform:

  • Windows x64
  • Windows x86
  • Windows arm64
  • macOS x64
  • macOS arm64
  • Linux x64 gnu (glibc 2.17)
  • Linux x64 musl
  • Linux arm64 gnu (glibc 2.17)
  • Linux arm64 musl
  • Linux armv7 gnueabihf
  • Android arm64
  • Android armv7

If you are building NAPI-RS packages with self-hosted Linux CI, you should install the following toolchain to build the addons for the above platforms:

  • Rust toolchain, including Cargo, rustup and your target rust std. eg: rustup target add aarch64-apple-darwin.
  • llvm. The latest qualification version is recommended.
  • cargo-xwin if you want to build for Windows on the non Windows system. cargo install cargo-xwin.

Host platform support

https://github.com/sponsors/napi-rs/

Integrating and properly configuring cross-platform compilation toolchain in the open source community can be very tedious and labor-intensive. Understanding these compilation parameters and resolving potential bugs can be very time-consuming and difficult to test. Special thanks for our team member @messense who has been working on cargo-xwin which is enabled us to build Windows native addons on non-Windows systems.

If you are using NAPI-RS in your company, please consider sponsoring our team to support the development of NAPI-RS. We will be very grateful for your support.

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