duckdb extension support on alpine

[meztez]

I want to help making the extension available natively on Alpine without having to recompile it within a docker build.
I saw the action excluded musl-amd64, is that why?

How can I help?

[Maxxen]

Hello!

Building and distributing the spatial extension on all supported platforms is a lot of work and generally extremely time consuming to debug. Since we already had a bunch of other issues on the more generally used platforms I decided to disable musl-amd64 for the time being. However, now that the other issues are fixed musl-amd64 might also work, I haven't checked.

If you want to check yourself you can fork this repo, enable CI and remove the exlclude section in the CI actions to check if the musl build succeeds.

Spatial uses a lot of dependencies, and most of them are built through VCPKG, where must is a unofficial "community" triplet, which basically means there are less guarantees that dependencies will work out of the box. So we might have to add patches ourselves as well.

[meztez]

Thanks, that's what I did. Totally fine, and fully understandable. Have a great day and thanks for being part of the open source collective effort.