third_party/rules_rust/musl.patch

commit e48fd8490d497fdfa6d5a7f8a3af63cc8c6db538
Author: Jan Schär <jan@monogon.tech>
Date:   Thu Jul 3 16:03:25 2025 +0000

    Use musl toolchain and add loader_wrapper
    
    This patches rules_rust to use the Rust toolchain built for musl instead
    of glibc, and adds a wrapper to locate the dynamic loader. What we
    achieve with this is that we no longer need a specific loader installed
    at an absolute path, which makes the build less dependent on the host
    OS.
    
    The tools are linked dynamically and need libc.so and libgcc_s.so.1. At
    least rustc cannot be linked statically, because proc macros are loaded
    with dlopen. When building proc macros, we need to add library paths
    containing the two .so files such that lld can find them.
    
    Usually, musl would be installed at /lib/ld-musl-x86_64.so.1, but we
    can't do that. Instead, the binaries are renamed to {name}_real and a
    wrapper script is placed there instead. The wrapper runs musl as a
    dynamic loader, passing it the path to the real binary.

diff --git a/rust/platform/triple.bzl b/rust/platform/triple.bzl
index 87cd6242..766bc08e 100644
--- a/rust/platform/triple.bzl
+++ b/rust/platform/triple.bzl
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ def get_host_triple(repository_ctx, abi = {}):
         prefix = "{}-unknown-linux".format(arch)
         return triple("{}-{}".format(
             prefix,
-            abi.get(prefix, "gnu"),
+            abi.get(prefix, "musl"),
         ))
 
     if "mac" in repository_ctx.os.name:
diff --git a/rust/private/loader_wrapper.sh b/rust/private/loader_wrapper.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..29805d8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rust/private/loader_wrapper.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Running rustc and other tools directly doesn't work, because that would
+# require musl to be installed at /lib/ld-musl-x86_64.so.1, but we can't install
+# things at absolute paths. Instead, this script calls musl as a dynamic loader,
+# giving it the path to the real binary which has been renamed to {name}_real.
+
+set -eu
+
+dirname() {
+    # Usage: dirname "path"
+
+    # If '$1' is empty set 'dir' to '.', else '$1'.
+    dir=${1:-.}
+
+    # Strip all trailing forward-slashes '/' from
+    # the end of the string.
+    #
+    # "${dir##*[!/]}": Remove all non-forward-slashes
+    # from the start of the string, leaving us with only
+    # the trailing slashes.
+    # "${dir%%"${}"}": Remove the result of the above
+    # substitution (a string of forward slashes) from the
+    # end of the original string.
+    dir=${dir%%"${dir##*[!/]}"}
+
+    # If the variable *does not* contain any forward slashes
+    # set its value to '.'.
+    [ "${dir##*/*}" ] && dir=.
+
+    # Remove everything *after* the last forward-slash '/'.
+    dir=${dir%/*}
+
+    # Again, strip all trailing forward-slashes '/' from
+    # the end of the string (see above).
+    dir=${dir%%"${dir##*[!/]}"}
+
+    # Print the resulting string and if it is empty,
+    # print '/'.
+    printf '%s\n' "${dir:-/}"
+}
+
+selfDir="$(dirname "$0")"
+rootPath="$(dirname "$selfDir")"
+
+exec "${rootPath}/sysroot/usr/lib/libc.so" \
+    "--library-path=${rootPath}/sysroot/usr/lib" \
+    "--argv0" "$0" \
+    "--" \
+    "${0}_real" \
+    "$@"
diff --git a/rust/private/repository_utils.bzl b/rust/private/repository_utils.bzl
index 27c08e78..0761c34c 100644
--- a/rust/private/repository_utils.bzl
+++ b/rust/private/repository_utils.bzl
@@ -41,12 +41,16 @@ filegroup(
     name = "rustc_lib",
     srcs = glob(
         [
+            "bin/*_real",
             "bin/*{dylib_ext}",
             "lib/*{dylib_ext}*",
             "lib/rustlib/{target_triple}/codegen-backends/*{dylib_ext}",
             "lib/rustlib/{target_triple}/bin/rust-lld{binary_ext}",
             "lib/rustlib/{target_triple}/lib/*{dylib_ext}*",
             "lib/rustlib/{target_triple}/lib/*.rmeta",
+            "sysroot/usr/lib/libc.so",
+            "sysroot/usr/lib/libgcc_s.so*",
+            "sysroot/usr/lib/libunwind.so*",
         ],
         allow_empty = True,
     ),
diff --git a/rust/private/rustc.bzl b/rust/private/rustc.bzl
index d78c2890..fbc00591 100644
--- a/rust/private/rustc.bzl
+++ b/rust/private/rustc.bzl
@@ -1012,6 +1012,12 @@ def construct_arguments(
     if linker_script:
         rustc_flags.add(linker_script, format = "--codegen=link-arg=-T%s")
 
+    if is_exec_configuration(ctx):
+        # This is needed when building proc macros, for lld to find libgcc_s.so
+        # and libc.so. This must be before the Rust standard library paths so
+        # lld uses libc.so instead of the libc.a shipped by Rust.
+        rustc_flags.add("-L", "native={}/sysroot/usr/lib".format(tool_path.rsplit("/", 2)[0]))
+
     # Tell Rustc where to find the standard library (or libcore)
     rustc_flags.add_all(toolchain.rust_std_paths, before_each = "-L", format_each = "%s")
     rustc_flags.add_all(rust_flags, map_each = map_flag)
diff --git a/rust/repositories.bzl b/rust/repositories.bzl
index a5df3842..323a26ae 100644
--- a/rust/repositories.bzl
+++ b/rust/repositories.bzl
@@ -42,13 +42,13 @@ load_arbitrary_tool = _load_arbitrary_tool
 DEFAULT_TOOLCHAIN_TRIPLES = {
     "aarch64-apple-darwin": "rust_macos_aarch64",
     "aarch64-pc-windows-msvc": "rust_windows_aarch64",
-    "aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu": "rust_linux_aarch64",
+    "aarch64-unknown-linux-musl": "rust_linux_aarch64",
     "powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu": "rust_linux_powerpc64le",
     "s390x-unknown-linux-gnu": "rust_linux_s390x",
     "x86_64-apple-darwin": "rust_macos_x86_64",
     "x86_64-pc-windows-msvc": "rust_windows_x86_64",
     "x86_64-unknown-freebsd": "rust_freebsd_x86_64",
-    "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu": "rust_linux_x86_64",
+    "x86_64-unknown-linux-musl": "rust_linux_x86_64",
 }
 
 _COMPACT_WINDOWS_NAMES = True
@@ -349,6 +349,33 @@ def rust_repositories(**kwargs):
 
     rust_register_toolchains(**kwargs)
 
+def load_sysroot(ctx, target_triple):
+    # Download the sysroot. We only need libc.so and libunwind.so from this;
+    # they are runtime dependencies of rustc, cargo, etc.
+    ARTIFACTS_VERSION = "20250603"
+    if target_triple.arch == "x86_64":
+        ctx.download_and_extract(
+            ["https://monogon-llvm-toolchain.storage.googleapis.com/%s/sysroot-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.zst" % ARTIFACTS_VERSION],
+            sha256 = "ba0fce4438de6d4dbc1678d2e672f377d30327d24e10b0de09f090032d34c1ba",
+            output = "sysroot",
+        )
+    elif target_triple.arch == "aarch64":
+        ctx.download_and_extract(
+            ["https://monogon-llvm-toolchain.storage.googleapis.com/%s/sysroot-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.zst" % ARTIFACTS_VERSION],
+            sha256 = "0cee4d5c1d24a9e9e2d1d12fd5e05ea1afcf69ea0b5d43979290988143ce1a0f",
+            output = "sysroot",
+        )
+    else:
+        fail("missing sysroot for architecture {}".format(target_triple.arch))
+    # Rust uses either libgcc_s.so or libunwind.so for unwinding. Both have the
+    # same interface for unwinding, so we can make libgcc_s.so a symlink to
+    # libunwind.so and it will work. This could potentially break in unknown
+    # ways, but it didn't break so far. Unwinding was tested by inserting a
+    # panic in a proc macro, which worked as expected. This avoids us needing to
+    # either build libgcc_s.so or build Rust configured to use libunwind.so.
+    ctx.symlink("sysroot/usr/lib/libunwind.so.1.0", "sysroot/usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1")
+    ctx.symlink("sysroot/usr/lib/libunwind.so.1.0", "sysroot/usr/lib/libgcc_s.so")
+
 _RUST_TOOLCHAIN_REPOSITORY_ATTRS = {
     "allocator_library": attr.string(
         doc = "Target that provides allocator functions when rust_library targets are embedded in a cc_binary.",
@@ -539,6 +566,13 @@ def _rust_toolchain_tools_repository_impl(ctx):
         repro[key] = getattr(ctx.attr, key)
     repro["sha256s"] = sha256s
 
+    load_sysroot(ctx = ctx, target_triple = exec_triple)
+    loader_wrapper = ctx.read(Label("//rust/private:loader_wrapper.sh"))
+    ctx.rename("bin/cargo", "bin/cargo_real")
+    ctx.file("bin/cargo", loader_wrapper)
+    ctx.rename("bin/rustc", "bin/rustc_real")
+    ctx.file("bin/rustc", loader_wrapper)
+
     return repro
 
 rust_toolchain_tools_repository = repository_rule(
@@ -928,6 +962,11 @@ def _rustfmt_toolchain_tools_repository_impl(repository_ctx):
         repro[key] = getattr(repository_ctx.attr, key)
     repro["sha256s"] = sha256s
 
+    load_sysroot(ctx = repository_ctx, target_triple = exec_triple)
+    loader_wrapper = repository_ctx.read(Label("//rust/private:loader_wrapper.sh"))
+    repository_ctx.rename("bin/rustfmt", "bin/rustfmt_real")
+    repository_ctx.file("bin/rustfmt", loader_wrapper)
+
     return repro
 
 rustfmt_toolchain_tools_repository = repository_rule(