Support precompiling NIfs
maennchen opened this issue · 1 comments
It would be awesome if it was possible to precompile (and possibly cross-compile for different architectures) the Nifs for published libraries. This would make the installation by the user of the library a lot and removes the requirement to install Zig.
This has already been done by other Nif providers like rustler:
https://github.com/philss/rustler_precompiled
It usually works by building the nifs and adding the object files to a GitHub release.
When a user installs the library from Hex, the library looks if the files exist locally and downloads them from the release if not.
yep. This is on the todo list in VERSIONS.md I will try to do it for 0.14 (thought I had an issue up for it but i don't see it anymore)