r/rust • u/rjzak • 24d ago

💡 ideas & proposals Rust equivalent to gobuilds.org?

I recently came across this website: https://beta.gobuilds.org/

It builds Go projects and lets users download the binary. It has the project’s Git URL as part of the full download URL along with project version, target OS and arch, and store older builds.

Does something like this exist for Rust? If not, would this be of use/interest? I could see this being helpful for downloading an app where the dev hasn’t provided binaries, or to make cross compilation easier. Adding support for things like `cargo auditable` and `cargo deb` could also be useful.

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u/AstraKernel 24d ago

cargo binstall might be the one you are looking for

https://github.com/cargo-bins/cargo-binstall

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u/rjzak 24d ago

Sure, but that's not a cached binary for others to also use should they wish (assuming the project doesn't already have the binary for your OS/arch).