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To build a static Linux binary with SIMD support, run this:

    RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=native" rustup run nightly cargo build --target x86_64-unknown-linux-musl --release --features simd-accel

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That's an awesome demonstration of how easy it is to swap out the libc in Rust. :-)

Note that I also distribute statically compiled executables with musl and SIMD enabled (using target-feature=+ssse3 instead of target-cpu=native): https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases

> That's an awesome demonstration of how easy it is to swap out the libc in Rust. :-)

Now I have to look up how I use cargo to build a static binary on FreeBSD, where I don't have to swap out libc.

> Note that I also distribute statically compiled executables with musl and SIMD enabled (using target-feature=+ssse3 instead of target-cpu=native): https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases

I took the flag from your blog post, thanks for pointing out the explicit feature flag. That will allow the binary to run on more cpus.

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