afanasjev82 / tauri-app-builder

Tauri app builder

This Dockerfile is designed to allow cross-compilation of Rust projects for Windows from a Linux or macOS host. It includes the Rust toolchain and a GNU C/C++ cross-compiler for Windows, as well as a shared volume for the source code.

And also this repo demonstrates how to locally compile lightweight Tauri applications to Windows executable (win64) using example Tauri application project tauri-app-builder and tauri-app-vanilla.

Prerequisites

• Docker

Getting started

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone --recursive https://github.com/afanasjev82/tauri-app-builder.git
   cd ./tauri-app-builder

2. Build the image:

   docker build -t tauri-app-builder .

   This will create a Docker image named tauri-app-builder that includes the necessary tools for cross-compiling Rust projects for Windows.

3. Usage:

   To use the tauri-app-builder image, you'll need to mount a volume containing your Rust project's source code. You can do this by running the following command:

   docker run --rm -v /path/to/tauri/project:/app tauri-app-builder

   This command will run a container using the rust-cross-compile image and mount the /path/to/tauri/project directory as a volume inside the container. The src-tauri directory inside your project will be set as the working directory, and the cargo build command will be executed with the --release flag and the target set to x86_64-pc-windows-gnu. The resulting binary will be placed in the /path/to/tauri/project/build directory, which is also mounted as a volume.

Example

To compile example Tauri project tauri-app-vanilla using tauri-app-builder image, please do the following:

1. (optional) If repo was cloned without --recursive, initialize repo's submodules

   git submodule update --init

   This will clone tauri-app-vanilla example Tauri application source into ./tauri-app-vanilla. If not successfull (I sometime encounter that issue) clone example repo manually by running following command in the root of this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/afanasjev82/tauri-app-vanilla.git

2. Build tauri-app-vanilla Windows executable using our tauri-app-builder:

   docker run --rm -v ./tauri-app-vanilla:/app tauri-app-builder

   And then you compiled executable will wait you in the ./tauri-app-vanilla/build/x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/release/tauri-app-vanilla.exe folder.

Recommended IDE Setup

• VS Code + Docker