Issues with name x and xbuild

[fredrik-hammar]

First, I would just like to say that this project seems really cool! I'm planning on using it myself and already made a demo for using it on android with egu, egui-android-demo :-)

But I think you'll have some problems with the current name.

The name xbuild is used by several other tools including another rust tool for general cross-compilation.

• https://www.mono-project.com/archived/xbuild/
• https://xbuild.com/
• https://github.com/rust-osdev/cargo-xbuild

I believe this will make it harder to search for this project and examples.

For the name of the executable, single letter names like x are often used as shell aliases, e.g. g for git, k for kubectl. I've used x in the past to run a command in a separate X11 window.

I would suggest a name containing app because packaging a rust project as an app feels like the main focus of this project, with cross-compilation is a step to achieve this. And connect the name to the Rust ecosystem, e.g. cargo-app, rust-app.

[shoutmarble]

In the Micro-Controllers they have a working system that is like this

Install command	Usage	Mobile Equivalent
cargo install espflash	$ espflash flash/monitor	Copying to mobile or running on emulator [ x run ]
cargo install cargo-espflash	$ cargo espflash flash	Copying to mobile [ x run ]
cargo install cargo-espmonitor	$ cargo espflash monitor	Running on phone or emulator [x lldb ]
cargo install espup	$ espup install	Installing Android NDK, SDK, and SDKManager from Android Studio [x doctor]
cargo install cargo-generate	$ cargo generate esp-rs/esp-template	Generating a Mobile Wry, Diouxus, Bevy, Egui, Iced, etc [missing?]

Their could be any number of templates managed by the project itself or independently...

IPHONE	ANDROID
cargo generate iphone-wry-template.git	cargo generate android-wry-template.git
cargo generate iphone-diouxus-template.git	cargo generate android-diouxus-template.git
cargo generate iphone-bevy-template.git	cargo generate android-bevy-template.git
cargo generate iphone-egui-template.git	cargo generate android-egui-template.git
cargo generate iphone-iced-template.git	cargo generate android-iced-template.git

The Build and Run Cycle would be

Micro-Controller	Mobile
cargo build	x build
cargo espflash flash	x run --device adb:123sdv
cargo espflash monitor	x lldb --device adb:123sdv

We would search or make a template for our mobile platform and framework

cargo-generate templates

[shoutmarble]

Maybe jdx/rtx may augment x doctor/x build/x run and with environment variable setting, installing, setting up dependencies for local builds of x doctor dependencies for some windows/linux/macos users that may have to do local source builds for x doctor?

jdx/rtx with x doctor may help install some of the manual setup of installing Android/Iphone dependencies
Cargo-NDK does this already...
NDK, SDK, CMDLINETOOLS, ANDROID STUDIO

jdx/rtx

I only saw this project trending and thought I would mention it.

[phatblat]

FYI, rtx has been renamed to mise, probably because of the confusion with the NVidia brand and resulting un-searchability.