Release lucet, provide a crate

[nmattia]

I'm trying to build lucet using the nix package manager, using the method described here. Using git dependencies is somewhat problematic and it would be much easier to fetch lucet as a crate -- or at least to avoid submodules.

Could lucet be released on crates.io?

[pchickey]

Yes, we'd like to do this, we just never got around to it. Thanks for the reminder!

[jedisct1]

Hi Nicolas!

Good news!

https://crates.io/search?q=lucet

You can now find the Lucet crates on crates.io 🎉

[nmattia]

Hi Frank, this is awesome. Thanks!

[antoinerg]

@nmattia Could you build lucet using Nix? If so, can you share the Nix expression? Thanks a lot

[nmattia]

@antoinerg yes I managed using naersk.

If you need to build lucet itself, here's how to do it: https://github.com/nmattia/naersk/blob/2d57092902c39dae5934bdbe48e1907961080009/test.nix#L58-L74

If you just require it as a dependency this should work:

naersk.buildPackage ./path/to/code
  { buildInputs = [ cmake python3 ]; }