Add prebuilt linux musl binaries to support Alpine linux

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, linux, nodejs, typescript
Domain
build-system, devops, operating-systems

Research direction

Start with the build pipeline on the Ubuntu 22.04 runner and review issues #851 and #46, then assess using an Alpine Docker container to produce musl binaries. Review the proposed detect-libc integration. Done means musl prebuilt binaries are published and selected correctly for musl-based platforms.

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Description

feature-request

Related to https://github.com/microsoft/node-pty/issues/851 it would be helpful to prebuilt binaries for platforms using musl instead of glibc.

detect-libc can be used as a popular package with minimal dependencies to determine the correct platform.

Since the build pipeline is required to be run on ubuntu 22.04 and no alpine runners are available perhaps the musl binaries could be built in an alpine docker container on the ubuntu runner.

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