There is no Linux MsQuic binary in any NuGet package, and the v2.5.9 GitHub
release carries only test bundles, so the Windows script's approach does not
transfer. What does exist is Microsoft's Debian 13 pool, which is the same
distribution Yggdrasil runs, and the msquic source tree at the matching tag for
the POSIX headers the NuGet omits.
`scripts/build-quic-native.sh` fetches the pinned `libmsquic_2.5.9_amd64.deb`
and the three headers `msquic.h`, `msquic_posix.h` and `quic_sal_stub.h`, and
verifies all four by SHA-256 the same way `build-quic-native.ps1:14` verifies
the NuGet. A digest that stops matching is a changed dependency, not a warning.
Two details the deb forced. It carries three library files and no licence text,
so the MIT licence is copied from the one this repo already committed for the
Windows plugin — the same text for both platforms. And it ships only
`libmsquic.so.2.5.9`, with no `libmsquic.so` for `-lmsquic` to resolve against,
so the script makes that link in the extracted tree rather than in the image.
The Linux CMake branch links `-fvisibility=hidden`, so only the twelve v2
exports leave the `.so` and the Windows-only v1 five are absent by construction
rather than by discipline, and sets `RPATH $ORIGIN` so the `libmsquic.so.2`
shipped beside the bridge resolves without being installed system-wide.
`build-quic-native.ps1`'s default output directory becomes
`artifacts/quic-native/win32-x64` so the two platforms' outputs sit beside each
other instead of on top of each other. Both existing callers —
`build-unity-package.ps1:80-82` and the Native.Tests csproj `:20-22` — pass an
explicit `-OutputDirectory`, so neither is affected.
Built and smoked in the workstation's Docker `debian:13` engine pinned by
digest: g++ 14.2.0, glibc 2.41, `libgamecult_mesh_quic_native.so` 85,456 bytes
with `NEEDED libmsquic.so.2` and `RUNPATH $ORIGIN`, and the same 15-check v2 FFI
smoke that runs on Windows passes under Node 24 on that image. That is a Linux
build on a Linux host and nothing more: Q6 ruled the release artifact comes from
the Actions job, and this one is the development loop.
A Linux host still needs MsQuic's own runtime dependencies present — libssl3t64,
libnuma1, libxdp1, libnl-route-3-200 — which is now written down, because the
first smoke run failed on a missing libxdp.so.1 and the reason was not obvious
from the error.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
