Running cross on apple silicon with orbstack fails to download the containers.

[laenzlinger]

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Describe your issue

Running cross on macOS arm64 with orbstack (https://docs.orbstack.dev/docker/) fails to download the docker image.

Orbstack uses Rosetta to run containers with foreign architectures.

However I could not find a configuration to specify the container platform.

A workaround is described below

What target(s) are you cross-compiling for?

aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu

Which operating system is the host (e.g computer cross is on) running?

• macOS
• Windows
• Linux / BSD
• other OS (specify in description)

What architecture is the host?

• x86_64 / AMD64
• arm32
• arm64 (including Mac M1)

What container engine is cross using?

• docker
• podman
• other container engine (specify in description)

cross version

cross 0.2.5

Example

cross build --release --target aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
Unable to find image 'ghcr.io/cross-rs/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu:0.2.5' locally
0.2.5: Pulling from cross-rs/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
docker: no matching manifest for linux/arm64/v8 in the manifest list entries.
See 'docker run --help'.
make: *** [build] Error 125

Additional information / notes

Workaround:

after downloading the image manually (forcing the platform) i can run the cross compiler successfulle:

docker pull ghcr.io/cross-rs/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu:0.2.5 --platform linux/amd64
....
cross build --release --target aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
WARNING: The requested image's platform (linux/amd64) does not match the detected host platform (linux/arm64/v8) and no specific platform was requested
   Compiling proc-macro2 v1.0.54
....

[Emilgardis]

See #1214 (comment)

This is a duplicate of #1214

[laenzlinger]

Thanks @Emilgardis the link really helps!