Consider binary releases?

[thejpster]

cargo-dist now does the hard work of setting up binary releases, meaning people can cargo binstall <package> and save themselves a bunch of CI build time.

Would that work here? Or do we need to compile against the specific version of cargo someone has?

[therealprof]

cargo-binutils only provides a nice frontend to find and call the llvm-tools binutils which are installed as a separate component to the rust compiler. It's (pretty much, unless the some critical CLI parameters of those tools change again) independent of the actually installed llvm-tools and the rust compiler version. The same is true for cargo, all the cargo "plugins" are independent of the actual cargo version.

So it should be fine to use/provide binaries.

[thejpster]

How do you find llvm-objcopy? It's not in $PATH, nor .cargo/bin?

Actually you can cargo binstall cargo-binutils because this project has been built by quickinstall. But it would be better if it was built (and signed) here instead of by someone else.

Edit: reading comprehension fail