🍄 Cross Compile Tauri on Docker Archlinuxarm for Raspberry pi zero 2w

Its just quick note about setup and cross compile tauri for archlinuxarm architecture in docker

first you need Docker installed on your system

$ docker --version
Docker version 28.0.1, build 068a01ea94
  • download Archlinuxarm image with wget http://os.archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-rpi-armv7-latest.tar.gz
  • next create folder to extract it mkdir archlinuxarm
  • extract to archlinuxarm by tar -xpf ArchLinuxARM-rpi-armv7-latest.tar.gz -C archlinuxarm
  • then change directory with cd archlinuxarm
  • now we will import extracted file to docker with tar -cpf - . | docker import - archlinuxarm:latest
  • then run with, docker run -it --rm archlinuxarm:latest /bin/bash , it will run bash with interactive shell --rm will remove all data after you logout from shell
  • if error when docker run, try to add qemu -> docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static --reset -p yes
  • init pacman key with pacman-key --init
  • then pacman-key --populate archlinuxarm
  • finally update all package with pacman -Syu
  • next login as root and we will install required package to cross compile pacman -Syu --needed sudo webkit2gtk-4.1 base-devel curl wget file openssl appmenu-gtk-module libappindicator-gtk3 librsvg yarn git rustup nodejs unzip cargo-tauri gcc make binutils --noconfirm
  • then install default toolchain for current architecture with rustup default stable
  • inside root user run this echo "%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
  • if somethink error because system cant find linker arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc, try to add export ARGO_TARGET_ARMV7_UNKNOWN_LINUX_GNUEABIHF_LINKER=gcc
  • you can follow the instruction on yay repo
  • if you dont have permission to automatically install, you can run makepkg -s to only build, then run pacman -U --noconfirm yay-bin-*.pkg.tar.xz to install using pacman.
  • dont forget to run this after yay installation yay -Y --gendb
  • you need postgresql libs if you work with postgresql in rust, pacman -S postgresql-libs
  • next we can build our tauri application (more info here https://v2.tauri.app/distribute/)
  • run yarn tauri build in application root folder, then wait
  • it will generate executable and bundling to several bundle type,
  • if you dont want bundle, just add flag --no-bundle
  • to save docker run -> docker ps && docker commit <container_id_or_name> my-custom-image
  • to copy from docker container use docker cp tauri-container:/root/ams/app/src-tauri/target/release/bundle/deb/ams_0.1.0_armel.deb .
  • to run docker with name use docker run -it --rm --name tauri-container archlinuxarm:latest /bin/bash