Asko Nõmm

So there I was, trying to get my static site generator to run on Vercel when I was greeted with an error:

/lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found

Hmm. It worked on my machine! Well, a little research revealed to me that Rust executables aren't actually fully static, meaning they rely on GLIBC to work and hence there is a problem since, I assume, Vercel does not have GLIBC installed.

Researching more I found that the solution is MUSL, which allows to build a fully static binary. I wanted to test it on my local machine before adding it to the build pipeline, but getting musl-gcc on macOS (M2) proved too difficult to install for me to care, so I just added it straight to the build pipeline instead and voilà, now the executable runs on Vercel as well.