Upload to package repositories

[Stupremee]

Since the project is evolving really fast, it would be nice to upload a rcc package to
some package repositories like AUR or Homebrew.

Should the packages be created in external / user contributed repositories or in this repository?

I would be ready to upload a package into the AUR or just provide the PKGBUILD file.

I will list some package repositories that can be used as a todo list.

• AUR
• Cocolatey
• Debian
• Homebrew
• Fedora
• Gentoo

[jyn514]

That's a giant complement that you think it's ready to be packaged! However, I don't think rcc is quite ready for that yet. Of course if you want to package it yourself that would be super cool, but I don't plan to spend time on it soon.

Here's some things I think should work before rcc gets packaged:

• run glibc. In particular, #include <stddef.h> should work or you can't use NULL.
• The API should be somewhat stabilized. Preprocessor for bindgen is a rough milestone for this. I don't expect it to never change, but big breaking things like removing and renaming structs should be much less common.
• It should run some real programs. My metric for this is a simple threaded web server, which has a lot of includes but not very complicated code (barring a bit of var_args). In particular, token pasting should work (#, ##).
• It should parse qualifiers correctly, or else the error messages won't make any sense. I already had several people confused by this in Read only relocations should go in .data.rel.ro, not .rodata bytecodealliance/cranelift#1354 (comment).

Nice to haves:

• Fix some more panics
• Resolve Can't define function without prototype #61 since most of the work is already done
• Maybe Codegen for va_args #348 since so many programs use it, although that's pretty long-term
• Run sqlite ([meta] Projects that should build with rcc #349)

Note that rcc does run pretty well with musl libc, so I would definitely be willing to put time into packaging it on alpine :)

[Stupremee]

Okay I understand that. I will still make an AUR package, because once you upload it, it should work every new version.

[jyn514]

Note also that before I package rcc for chocolatey I should make sure it runs on windows!

[jyn514]

Oh - also make sure that if you package it, you list another C compiler as a dependency (any will work). I use the host cc for linking.

[jyn514]

It seems that someone has already added saltwater to homebrew without my knowing! Homebrew/homebrew-core#57249