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		MrDrMcCoy on Dec 31, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ugrep – a more powerful, fast, user-friendly, comp... For me, it's a lot easier to compile a static binary of a C++ app than a Rust one. Never got that to work. Also nice to have compatibility with all of grep's arguments.

datadeft on Dec 31, 2023 [–]

> to compile a static binary

Cargo is one of the main reasons to use Rust of C++. I am pretty sure there is more involved with C++ than this:

   rustup target add x86_64-unknown-linux-musl 
   cargo build --target=x86_64-unknown-linux-musl

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