From 44805ef45d12a00a9169cc06232ef10277265f40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: parazyd <parazyd@dyne.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 11:52:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] book/dev: Document native musl builds

---
 doc/src/dev/dev.md | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/src/dev/dev.md b/doc/src/dev/dev.md
index 30db7b884..989f48d90 100644
--- a/doc/src/dev/dev.md
+++ b/doc/src/dev/dev.md
@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ You can then find the reports in `target/llvm-cov/html/index.html`
 
 ## Static binary builds
 
+### Using LXC
+
 Using musl-libc, we should be able to produce statically linked
 binaries from our codebase. A short setup using a Debian system and
 `lxc` can be the following:
@@ -135,3 +137,15 @@ And now we should be able to build a statically linked binary:
 # sed -e 's,^#RUSTFLAGS ,RUSTFLAGS ,' -i Makefile
 # make darkirc
 ```
+
+### Native
+
+In certain cases, it might also be possible to build natively by
+installing the musl toolchain:
+
+```
+$ rustup target add x86_64-unknown-linux-musl --toolchain nightly
+## Uncomment RUSTFLAGS in the main Makefile
+$ sed -e 's,^#RUSTFLAGS ,RUSTFLAGS ,' -i Makefile
+$ make RUST_TARGET=x86_64-unknown-linux-musl darkirc
+```