Can I use the CI for multiplatform Rust projects? #2150

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Hello! I am considering Codeberg for a large open source application written in Rust.

My main concern is CI. I would like to have the following actions:

• An action that runs tests and checks for doc errors and formatting issues when someone submits a PR.
• An action that builds and publishes binary releases for Linux, Windows, and Mac (both x86 and Apple Silicon) for each new release.

Is this something that is possible with Codeberg's CI system?

The rust compiler is quite resource intensive on large projects, so I'm not sure I would be able to use the "tiny"/"small" forgejo runners.

For reference, on GitHub I have a project that does the former action:
https://github.com/BillyDM/Firewheel/blob/main/.github/workflows/ci.yml

And a project that does the latter:
https://github.com/BillyDM/vitalium-verb/blob/main/.github/workflows/build.yml

Hmm, I might be able to use something like this to cross-compile binaries for non-Linux systems. https://github.com/cross-rs/cross

Ok, I suppose I don't really need to have a CI to build binary releases. I can just build them on my local machines.

As for the CI to run cargo test for pull requests, I see there is an example here https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-CI/examples/src/branch/main/Rust/.woodpecker.yaml.

However, since this will be quite a large project, is there any way to cache dependency builds to speed up builds and to reduce the load on the build server?

Hmm, there is this plugin, but it seems I may need an S3 server to use it? https://woodpecker-ci.org/plugins/sccache

Generally, CI/CD on codeberg supports your use case. However, you'll need to check for yourself if it meets your requirements.

Please understand that we have different CI/CD offers. A hosted Woodpecker CI instance where you need to request access first, and our generic Forgejo Actions offer that currently has limited resources per run to protect against resource abuse.