Add support for musl?

[tulilirockz]

I'd love to use this on a minimal alpine linux VM but apparently I can't build this project so that it'll run on musl :( Maybe I just don't know how to do so, but sadly it doesn't seem like it...

[artempyanykh]

@tulilirockz thanks for opening this. Have you looked into dotnet on alpine? Some relevant bits I see are:

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-alpine
• Build for musl 1.1.24 dotnet/sdk#24448

In any case, if someone figures out how to make dotnet link against musl and wrap it into a CI job, I'd be happy to accept a patch.

[artempyanykh]

Looks like dotnet has musl target out of the box now https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/rid-catalog#linux-rids

[samuelallan72]

I could successfully build this on Alpinelinux (musl) with the following patch:

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 5ab2612..939d8a7 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ else
 	endif
 endif
 
-RID := $(OS_ID)-$(ARCH_ID)
+RID := $(OS_ID)-musl-$(ARCH_ID)
 
 .PHONY: setup
 setup:

I guess a fix for this would simply be to add something to the Makefile to detect musl and add it to the logic for building RID.

[samuelallan72]

Actually I think this is even easier, because we can (and already do in CI) manually override the RID variable for make. So building should be as simple as:

make RID=linux-musl-x64 publish

[samuelallan72]

@artempyanykh

In any case, if someone figures out how to make dotnet link against musl and wrap it into a CI job, I'd be happy to accept a patch

I've submitted a patch for this - please see #435 🙂

[tulilirockz]

Oh whoa nice! I completely forgot this issue was still even open!

[artempyanykh]

@tulilirockz I just cut a fresh release https://github.com/artempyanykh/marksman/releases/tag/2025-11-25 I didn't test if musl binaries work, let me know if you do.