Main VS rust-cross

Compare Main vs rust-cross and see what are their differences.

Main

📦 The default bucket for Scoop. (by ScoopInstaller)

rust-cross

Everything you need to know about cross compiling Rust programs! (by japaric)
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Main rust-cross
10 5
1,516 2,475
16.4% -
10.0 0.0
1 day ago almost 2 years ago
PowerShell Shell
The Unlicense Apache License 2.0
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Main

Posts with mentions or reviews of Main. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-23.
  • SumatraPDF Reader
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Oct 2023
  • My CNCF LFX Mentorship Spring 2023 Project at Kubescape
    19 projects | dev.to | 14 May 2023
    (merged) ScoopInstaller/Main #4757 kubescape: Update url and binary naming
  • I built a cross-platform GUI management tool for LiteDB using AvaloniaUI
    2 projects | /r/csharp | 3 Apr 2023
  • Stupid Fast Scoop Search v1.0
    18 projects | /r/rust | 29 Oct 2022
  • The scoop on Windows running Perl
    1 project | /r/perl | 28 Oct 2022
  • In support of single binary executable packages
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2022
    As I see it, part of the drive behind tools like Scoop is to overcome the limitations of the binary-shipping strategy common to Windows developers. They are successful at this, I agree, but only partially successful. They come from the tradition of programs like Ninite, which were explicitly built as ways to make the binary approach suck less than it did before.

    I see the success of these programs as essentially stemming from the insertion of user interests in the form of a maintainer-like process. Sure, they're still working with the binaries, but the actual process of installing and managing these binaries is controlled by users, for users: https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Main/tree/master/bucket

    This means that you get moderation and in many cases modification to the behavior of the program. In a freeware environment like Windows that's full of shitware, at the very least you can in many cases strip out the ads. That's absolutely not nothing, but at the end of the day it comes from a group of user-maintainers stepping up and saying to developers that no, you cannot simply do whatever you want on my system with your software. That's ... sort of the whole point of a software distribution, in the Linux world!

    When I want the latest version of a CLI tool on Linux, I simply `pacman -S package`. That's it; one command. I don't see how it could be any simpler or better than that, and on top of that I'm getting the benefits of moderation and integration with the rest of my system. Perhaps you are emphasizing latest version here, and hinting that you don't get that on Linux distros? That depends entirely on the distro; a software distribution is (roughly) a collection of user interests. An Arch user wants (and gets) the latest versions of all upstream software. A Debian user does not want this or see constant updating to the latest version as an advantage, so that's not what they get.

  • AVR GCC Toolchain - Setup for Windows
    3 projects | /r/embedded | 20 Jan 2022
    Here is the definition: https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Main/blob/master/bucket/avr-gcc.json
  • WinGet is terrible. I want AppGet back
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Apr 2021
    Those are all automated by the auto-update script.

    Check Merged PRs https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Main/pulls?q=is%3Apr+sort%... and you will see that the last non-bot one was merged 17 days ago.

rust-cross

Posts with mentions or reviews of rust-cross. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-01.
  • Anything C can do Rust can do Better
    58 projects | dev.to | 1 Dec 2022
    rust-cross, Everything you need to know about cross compiling Rust programs! - Jorge Aparicio
  • GitHub Actions can't find built binaries to put them to a release
    4 projects | /r/github | 14 Sep 2022
    on: push: tags: - 'v*' name: Cross-compile and release jobs: build: name: Build runs-on: ubuntu-latest strategy: matrix: target: # https://github.com/japaric/rust-cross#the-target-triple - x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu - x86_64-pc-windows-gnu - wasm32-unknown-emscripten steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v2 - uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1 with: toolchain: stable target: ${{ matrix.target }} override: true - uses: actions-rs/cargo@v1 with: use-cross: true command: build args: --release --target=${{ matrix.target }} release: name: Release needs: [ build ] runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v2 with: clean: false - uses: nowsprinting/check-version-format-action@v3 id: version with: prefix: 'v' - name: Create release id: new_release uses: actions/create-release@v1 env: GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} with: tag_name: ${{ github.ref }} release_name: Release ${{ github.ref }} body: | Changes in this release: - First change - Second change draft: false prerelease: false - name: Upload 64-bit Windows build uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1 env: GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} with: asset_path: target/release/client.exe asset_name: client-${{ matrix.target }}-${{ steps.version.outputs.full }}.exe asset_content_type: application/zip upload_url: ${{ steps.new_release.outputs.upload_url }} - name: Upload 64-bit Linux build uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1 env: GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} with: asset_path: target/release/client asset_name: client-${{ matrix.target }}-${{ steps.version.outputs.full }} asset_content_type: application/zip upload_url: ${{ steps.new_release.outputs.upload_url }} - name: Upload 32-bit WebAssembly build uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1 env: GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} with: asset_path: target/release/client.wasm asset_name: client-${{ matrix.target }}-${{ steps.version.outputs.full }}.wasm asset_content_type: application/zip upload_url: ${{ steps.new_release.outputs.upload_url }}
  • In support of single binary executable packages
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2022
    Well, at least that's that easy if what you try to compile don't have C dependencies. For C dependencies, there is cross <https://github.com/japaric/rust-cross> which I had good experiences with.
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got an easy question? Ask here (15/2021)!
    20 projects | /r/rust | 12 Apr 2021
    Oh, this was the first thing that came up: https://github.com/japaric/rust-cross

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Main and rust-cross you can also consider the following projects:

DalamudPlugins - This repository hosts plugins for XIVLauncher/Dalamud

xargo - The sysroot manager that lets you build and customize `std`

Shovel-Ash258 - Personal Shovel bucket with a wide variety of applications of all kinds.

Clippy - A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code. Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/clippy/

rust-opendingux-test - OpenGL on RG350M demo

Module Linker - browse modules by clicking directly on "import" statements on GitHub

wix3 - WiX Toolset v3.x

just - 🤖 Just a command runner

Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows.

cargo-linked - Display linked packages for compiled rust binaries

Scoop-Core - Shovel. Alternative, more advanced, and user-friendly implementation of windows command-line installer scoop.

iced - A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm