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Jamil 6476109b73 fix(apple): Simplify Xcode rust build steps (#7709)
Xcode doesn't allow wildcards in input file lists, so the rules I set up
in #7488 never took effect.

Upon further investigation, it appears that the `strip` command executed
unconditionally at the end of every Rust build was the culprit. Since
Xcode already does this for us, it's a useless step that adds about 30s
to the build time.

Unfortunately there isn't a good way to tell Xcode not to build rust.
But now we don't need to -- `cargo`'s build cache is smart enough to
skip builds and we are back to the ~1-2s range for repeated builds when
only Swift code has changed.

We also add the swift bridge generated code to version control. These
doesn't change regularly, and Xcode sometimes complains that the files
don't exist _before_ it lets you run the `cargo build` to generate them
🙃 .
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Rust development guide

Firezone uses Rust for all data plane components. This directory contains the Linux and Windows clients, and low-level networking implementations related to STUN/TURN.

We target the last stable release of Rust using rust-toolchain.toml. If you are using rustup, that is automatically handled for you. Otherwise, ensure you have the latest stable version of Rust installed.

Reading Client logs

The Client logs are written as JSONL for machine-readability.

To make them more human-friendly, pipe them through jq like this:

cd path/to/logs  # e.g. `$HOME/.cache/dev.firezone.client/data/logs` on Linux
cat *.log | jq -r '"\(.time) \(.severity) \(.message)"'

Resulting in, e.g.

2024-04-01T18:25:47.237661392Z INFO started log
2024-04-01T18:25:47.238193266Z INFO GIT_VERSION = 1.0.0-pre.11-35-gcc0d43531
2024-04-01T18:25:48.295243016Z INFO No token / actor_name on disk, starting in signed-out state
2024-04-01T18:25:48.295360641Z INFO null

Benchmarking on Linux

The recommended way for benchmarking any of the Rust components is Linux' perf utility. For example, to attach to a running application, do:

  1. Ensure the binary you are profiling is compiled with the release profile.
  2. sudo perf record -g --freq 10000 --pid $(pgrep <your-binary>).
  3. Run the speed test or whatever load-inducing task you want to measure.
  4. sudo perf script > profile.perf
  5. Open profiler.firefox.com and load profile.perf

Instead of attaching to a process with --pid, you can also specify the path to executable directly. That is useful if you want to capture perf data for a test or a micro-benchmark.