Can't cross compile

[europaul]

Hi,

I'm trying to cross-compile vector to ARM64
I enter the environment from the projet root via make environment
I run make build-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl, but get the following strange error:

root@build-server:/git/vectordotdev/vector# make build-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl
make -k cross-image-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl
make[1]: Entering directory '/git/vectordotdev/vector'
docker build \
	--tag vector-cross-env:aarch64-unknown-linux-musl \
	--file scripts/cross/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.dockerfile \
	.
[+] Building 0.9s (9/9) FINISHED                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
 => [internal] load build definition from aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.dockerfile                                                                                                                                                                          0.0s
 => => transferring dockerfile: 616B                                                                                                                                                                                                                     0.0s
 => [internal] load metadata for ghcr.io/cross-rs/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl:0.2.5                                                                                                                                                                       0.6s
 => [internal] load .dockerignore                                                                                                                                                                                                                        0.0s
 => => transferring context: 145B                                                                                                                                                                                                                        0.0s
 => [internal] load build context                                                                                                                                                                                                                        0.0s
 => => transferring context: 211B                                                                                                                                                                                                                        0.0s
 => [1/4] FROM ghcr.io/cross-rs/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl:0.2.5@sha256:702154f52b2d8091671aa2c84d5582d849f949977228c735ff8462f93cc0e1e4                                                                                                                 0.0s
 => CACHED [2/4] COPY scripts/cross/bootstrap-ubuntu.sh scripts/environment/install-protoc.sh /                                                                                                                                                          0.0s
 => CACHED [3/4] RUN /bootstrap-ubuntu.sh && bash /install-protoc.sh                                                                                                                                                                                     0.0s
 => CACHED [4/4] RUN mkdir -p /lib/native-libs && cp /usr/local/aarch64-linux-musl/lib/libstdc++.a /lib/native-libs/                                                                                                                                     0.0s
 => exporting to image                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   0.0s
 => => exporting layers                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  0.0s
 => => writing image sha256:2763df290c781b9c5ecd6f443578a2079efaa8402d5533eb66095310b53d2abb                                                                                                                                                             0.0s
 => => naming to docker.io/library/vector-cross-env:aarch64-unknown-linux-musl                                                                                                                                                                           0.0s
make[1]: Leaving directory '/git/vectordotdev/vector'
cross build \
	--release \
	--target aarch64-unknown-linux-musl \
	--no-default-features \
	--features target-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl
info: syncing channel updates for '1.86-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'

  1.86-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu unchanged - rustc 1.86.0 (05f9846f8 2025-03-31)

Error: 
   0: `docker inspect ''` failed with exit status: 1

Stderr:
   Error: No such object:

Stdout:
   []
make: *** [Makefile:286: target/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl/release/vector] Error 1

I tried it on two different machines - the error is the same. Is my setup maybe wrong?

I would really appreciate any hints 🙏

[thomasqueirozb]

Hi @europaul, this is likely due to using make environment since it drops you inside a docker container. cross is likely causing this issue since it's trying to run docker inspect. If you run make build-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl from your host machine you should be able to cross compile with no issues.

If you hit any issues running the make command, ./scripts/environment/prepare.sh will install any missing tools