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databaserustrust-diesel

Does diesel requires mysql and sqlite to be installed?

I'm doing RUN cargo install diesel_cli in my docker image, and I get:

= note: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsqlite3 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmysqlclient collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

only postgres is installed.

Do I really need to install sqlite3 and mysqlclient even though I'm not going to use then? I want to keep my container small.

Solution

  • Check your [dependencies] as for Postgres only:

    [dependencies]
diesel = { version = "1.4.6", features = ["postgres"] }

    Note you have to specify features and explicitly remove mysql and sqlite which are present by default.

    For a cargo install the same principle should apply but you need to add --no-default-features to turn off defaults:

    cargo install diesel_cli --no-default-features --features postgres