Alpine-friendly releases #99

ekliot commented 2026年03月13日 17:56:46 +01:00

For the tarball pulled by script/install.sh, on an Alpine system, I get the following errors:

» gram --foreground
Error relocating /home/user/.local/gram.app/libexec/../lib/libxcb.so.1: __isoc23_strtoul: symbol not found
Error relocating /home/user/.local/gram.app/libexec/../lib/libX11.so.6: __isoc23_strtoul: symbol not found
Error relocating /home/user/.local/gram.app/libexec/../lib/libX11.so.6: __isoc23_sscanf: symbol not found
Error relocating /home/user/.local/gram.app/libexec/../lib/libX11.so.6: __isoc23_strtol: symbol not found
Error relocating /home/user/.local/gram.app/libexec/../lib/libxkbcommon.so.0: __isoc23_strtoul: symbol not found
Error relocating /home/user/.local/gram.app/libexec/../lib/libxkbcommon.so.0: __isoc23_strtol: symbol not found
Error relocating /home/user/.local/gram.app/libexec/../lib/libXdmcp.so.6: arc4random_buf: symbol not found
Error relocating /home/user/.local/gram.app/libexec/gram-editor: __isoc23_strtol: symbol not found
Error relocating /home/user/.local/gram.app/libexec/gram-editor: __isoc23_sscanf: symbol not found
Error relocating /home/user/.local/gram.app/libexec/gram-editor: __res_init: symbol not found
Error relocating /home/user/.local/gram.app/libexec/gram-editor: fcntl64: symbol not found

Pretty sure this is a libc issue. I do see that musl is one of the required dependencies for Debian systems in script/linux, but (based on my errors) I think the X11 lib(s) are linked against glibc instead of muslc.

I've confirmed I can run local builds on Alpine.

To remedy this I think all that's needed is to adjust the CI to run on Alpine and adding Alpine/apk logic to script/linux.

Happy to take this on if there is interest.

For the tarball pulled by `script/install.sh`, on an Alpine system, I get the following errors: ``` » gram --foreground Error relocating /home/user/.local/gram.app/libexec/../lib/libxcb.so.1: __isoc23_strtoul: symbol not found Error relocating /home/user/.local/gram.app/libexec/../lib/libX11.so.6: __isoc23_strtoul: symbol not found Error relocating /home/user/.local/gram.app/libexec/../lib/libX11.so.6: __isoc23_sscanf: symbol not found Error relocating /home/user/.local/gram.app/libexec/../lib/libX11.so.6: __isoc23_strtol: symbol not found Error relocating /home/user/.local/gram.app/libexec/../lib/libxkbcommon.so.0: __isoc23_strtoul: symbol not found Error relocating /home/user/.local/gram.app/libexec/../lib/libxkbcommon.so.0: __isoc23_strtol: symbol not found Error relocating /home/user/.local/gram.app/libexec/../lib/libXdmcp.so.6: arc4random_buf: symbol not found Error relocating /home/user/.local/gram.app/libexec/gram-editor: __isoc23_strtol: symbol not found Error relocating /home/user/.local/gram.app/libexec/gram-editor: __isoc23_sscanf: symbol not found Error relocating /home/user/.local/gram.app/libexec/gram-editor: __res_init: symbol not found Error relocating /home/user/.local/gram.app/libexec/gram-editor: fcntl64: symbol not found ``` Pretty sure this is a libc issue. I do see that musl is one of the required dependencies for Debian systems in [script/linux][script/linux], but (based on my errors) I think the X11 lib(s) are linked against glibc instead of muslc. I've confirmed I can run local builds on Alpine. To remedy this I think all that's needed is to adjust the CI to run on Alpine and adding Alpine/apk logic to [script/linux][script/linux]. Happy to take this on if there is interest. [script/linux]: https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram/src/commit/1046b2f1de36a8eeb75e7f2f3bb3929310d0e8a6/script/linux

krig commented 2026年03月13日 20:44:02 +01:00

Hi, yes, the tarball for 1.0 does require glibc and quite a recent version as well. Building for musl may be possible, but I suspect that there is a dependency that may cause problems. But let me know if you get it to work! Otherwise the flatpak build may be an option..

Hi, yes, the tarball for 1.0 does require glibc and quite a recent version as well. Building for musl may be possible, but I suspect that there is a dependency that may cause problems. But let me know if you get it to work! Otherwise the flatpak build may be an option..

selfisekai commented 2026年03月14日 03:38:29 +01:00

I've submitted gram as a package to aports, no response yet. https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/98801

2 problems on 1.0.0: one is a build problem (solved on main by #39), the other is that wasi-sdk will not work to build extensions with tree-sitter grammars. Also text flickering.

I've submitted gram as a package to aports, no response yet. https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/98801 2 problems on 1.0.0: one is a build problem (solved on main by #39), the other is that wasi-sdk will not work to build extensions with tree-sitter grammars. Also text flickering.

ekliot commented 2026年03月14日 18:28:27 +01:00

I've built a fresh checkout from main on Alpine 3.23.3, without text flickering, but I haven't put it through any actual code editing yet, so idk what else might be borked

I've built a fresh checkout from `main` on Alpine 3.23.3, without text flickering, but I haven't put it through any actual code editing yet, so idk what else might be borked

selfisekai commented 2026年03月14日 21:40:46 +01:00

The text flickering seems to happen together with some heavier LSP tasks like rust-analyzer running cargo check. To be clear this has been an issue in Zed since at least when I first tried 0.162 in November 2024

The text flickering seems to happen together with some heavier LSP tasks like rust-analyzer running cargo check. To be clear this has been an issue in Zed since at least when I first tried 0.162 in November 2024

Frysog commented 2026年03月21日 17:09:46 +01:00

I've submitted gram as a package to aports, no response yet. https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/98801

2 problems on 1.0.0: one is a build problem (solved on main by #39), the other is that wasi-sdk will not work to build extensions with tree-sitter grammars. Also text flickering.

Thank you @selfisekai for packaging it. Could you also build the remote server too please. I happen to remote into another alpine machine inside of a container since zed doesn't support musl. Dropping the container on server would be awesome.

> I've submitted gram as a package to aports, no response yet. https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/98801 > > 2 problems on 1.0.0: one is a build problem (solved on main by #39), the other is that wasi-sdk will not work to build extensions with tree-sitter grammars. Also text flickering. Thank you @selfisekai for packaging it. Could you also build the remote server too please. I happen to remote into another alpine machine inside of a container since zed doesn't support musl. Dropping the container on server would be awesome.

darltrash commented 2026年03月25日 01:26:05 +01:00

This would be amazing to have for something like Chimera Linux, which is also Musl-based

This would be amazing to have for something like Chimera Linux, which is also Musl-based

ItsHarper commented 2026年03月25日 03:52:47 +01:00

This would be amazing to have for something like Chimera Linux, which is also Musl-based

I've actually got it building with cbuild already. I just need to submit to cports.

> This would be amazing to have for something like Chimera Linux, which is also Musl-based I've actually got it building with cbuild already. I just need to submit to cports.

darltrash commented 2026年03月25日 16:40:53 +01:00

@ItsHarper wrote in #99 (comment):

This would be amazing to have for something like Chimera Linux, which is also Musl-based

I've actually got it building with cbuild already. I just need to submit to cports.

huge news tbh, i'll tell my entire team about this

@ItsHarper wrote in https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram/issues/99#issuecomment-12060504: > > This would be amazing to have for something like Chimera Linux, which is also Musl-based > > I've actually got it building with cbuild already. I just need to submit to cports. huge news tbh, i'll tell my entire team about this

ItsHarper commented 2026年05月02日 19:14:04 +02:00

@darltrash wrote in #99 (comment):

@ItsHarper wrote in #99 (comment):

This would be amazing to have for something like Chimera Linux, which is also Musl-based

I've actually got it building with cbuild already. I just need to submit to cports.

huge news tbh, i'll tell my entire team about this

@darltrash Finally got around to submitting that Chimera Linux PR: https://github.com/chimera-linux/cports/pull/5506

@darltrash wrote in https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram/issues/99#issuecomment-12076797: > @ItsHarper wrote in #99 (comment): > > > > This would be amazing to have for something like Chimera Linux, which is also Musl-based > > > > > > I've actually got it building with cbuild already. I just need to submit to cports. > huge news tbh, i'll tell my entire team about this @darltrash Finally got around to submitting that Chimera Linux PR: https://github.com/chimera-linux/cports/pull/5506

krig commented 2026年05月14日 23:08:25 +02:00

I think we have this now.

I think we have this now.

valpackett commented 2026年05月20日 22:41:39 +02:00

Except launching the Flatpak on a musl system still breaks with the same issue because it tries to launch the glibc binary on the host...

Except launching the *Flatpak* on a musl system still breaks with the same issue because it tries to launch the glibc binary on the host...

krig commented 2026年05月20日 23:22:39 +02:00

The flatpak is generally not the best option right now. I would recommend looking at the cports build instead.

The flatpak is generally not the best option right now. I would recommend looking at the cports build instead.