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Maciej Kravchyk
Maciej Kravchyk

Reputation: 16607

Rust Linux version glibc not found - compile for different glibc / libc6 version

I compile a Rust binary on one Linux system and try to run it on another. When I run the program I get:

./hello-rust: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.32' not found (required by ./hello-rust)

GLIBC aka libc6 is installed on the system, however, the version is 2.31 Is there a way to compile the program for a less recent version of libc6?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 10550

Answers (2)

duli
duli

Reputation: 119

If you want a simple way of doing it, try the cross project. It requires Docker, but is super easy.

cargo install cross --git https://github.com/cross-rs/cross

Make sure your user can run Docker:

sudo usermod -aG docker ${USER}

Then, for example, if you want to compile for armv6l arch:

cross build --target arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf --release

If you want to compile for armv7l:

cross build --target armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf --release

The compiled file will be placed in the usual target/armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/release/... folder.

Make sure to check the proper destination arch in the targeted system with the command arch. Example:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ arch
armv6l

Upvotes: 1

Maciej Kravchyk
Maciej Kravchyk

Reputation: 16607

Per the issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/57497 - there's no way to tell the Rust compiler to link a different library other than the one installed on the system.

This means I have to compile the binary on a system that has a less recent version of libc6 installed - then the binary should be compatible with the same version of libc6, or a more recent version*

The most convenient way of doing that would by using a Docker image that has the target libc6 version and rustup.

For myself, the official Rust docker image had the correct version I could use to compile for my target.

In the working directory:

sudo docker pull rust
sudo docker run --rm --user "$(id -u)":"$(id -g)" -v "$PWD":/usr/src/myapp -w /usr/src/myapp rust cargo build --release

If the official image, which is based on Debian does not satisfy the version requirement, you will have to create a custom docker image, i.e.:

  • fork the official Rust docker image and set it to use an older version of Debian
  • or create an image that is based on an older Debian or other Linux distro image and configure it to install rustup

* I could use a binary compiled with libc6 2.31 on a system that has libc6 2.32 - I'm not sure how far backwards compatibility goes.

Upvotes: 9

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