{"id":1225,"hash":"50d0e58687ad534db63f55dae2c49ccae9f4e2d36bd7ce0d5137d9644477165f","pattern":"How to fix "cannot find -lsqlite3" error when deploying Rust app to Heroku?","full_message":"I have built an API using Rocket, Diesel and SQLite. It runs fine locally.\n\nNow I want to deploy my API it to Heroku. I'm going off this example. I've followed the included instructions as close as I can. However, the build step returns the following error:\n\nerror: linking with `cc` failed: exit code: 1\n  |\n  = note: \"cc\" \"-Wl,--as-needed\" \"-Wl,-z,noexecstack\" \"-m64\" \"-Wl,--eh-frame-hdr\" \"-L\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/cardbox_api-1b33053639456c47.cardbox_api.2391d6uc-cgu.0.rcgu.o\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/cardbox_api-1b33053639456c47.cardbox_api.2391d6uc-cgu.1.rcgu.o\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/cardbox_api-1b33053639456c47.cardbox_api.2391d6uc-cgu.10.rcgu.o\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/cardbox_api-1b33053639456c47.cardbox_api.2391d6uc-cgu.11.rcgu.o\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/cardbox_api-1b33053639456c47.cardbox_api.2391d6uc-cgu.12.rcgu.o\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/cardbox_api-1b33053639456c47.cardbox_api.2391d6uc-cgu.13.rcgu.o\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/cardbox_api-1b33053639456c47.cardbox_api.2391d6uc-cgu.14.rcgu.o\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/cardbox_api-1b33053639456c47.cardbox_api.2391d6uc-cgu.15.rcgu.o\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/cardbox_api-1b33053639456c47.cardbox_api.2391d6uc-cgu.2.rcgu.o\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/cardbox_api-1b33053639456c47.cardbox_api.2391d6uc-cgu.3.rcgu.o\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/cardbox_api-1b33053639456c47.cardbox_api.2391d6uc-cgu.4.rcgu.o\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/cardbox_api-1b33053639456c47.cardbox_api.2391d6uc-cgu.5.rcgu.o\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/cardbox_api-1b33053639456c47.cardbox_api.2391d6uc-cgu.6.rcgu.o\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/cardbox_api-1b33053639456c47.cardbox_api.2391d6uc-cgu.7.rcgu.o\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/cardbox_api-1b33053639456c47.cardbox_api.2391d6uc-cgu.8.rcgu.o\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/cardbox_api-1b33053639456c47.cardbox_api.2391d6uc-cgu.9.rcgu.o\" \"-o\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/cardbox_api-1b33053639456c47\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/cardbox_api-1b33053639456c47.xdi22qyw1jm4dgn.rcgu.o\" \"-Wl,--gc-sections\" \"-pie\" \"-Wl,-zrelro\" \"-Wl,-znow\" \"-Wl,-O1\" \"-nodefaultlibs\" \"-L\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps\" \"-L\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/build/ring-0f13c32780184988/out\" \"-L\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib\" \"-Wl,-Bstatic\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libuuid-ce4969afc97ad8b9.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libjsonwebtoken-44a266ecba46fbf1.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libpem-d45dd6ee3de1c97b.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libregex-c1e1617462b9257c.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libthread_local-3948ce50dadeb546.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libregex_syntax-54ff6446d5044f96.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libaho_corasick-c99fa63c4b172ad4.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libsimple_asn1-4334711a5a537225.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libnum_bigint-109e809cd264f00a.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libchrono-3405124ec15564a1.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libnum_integer-137bdd49e20d58ff.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libnum_traits-2d6f0e657d8b410e.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libring-fea6120cdf068f14.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libspin-8b88071a74fd1146.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libuntrusted-07c812cecbdda234.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libreqwest-b54031f22b1a4160.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libhyper_tls-b12b7cccc6f3158b.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libipnet-5dd6b6b4ddc5ef77.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libtokio_tls-50f6bfe1206058f6.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libserde_urlencoded-b45320924fa23eeb.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libencoding_rs-9c06080874b247fd.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libbase64-a69b0bd0ffc84f09.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libmime_guess-90ce58d79a8765e7.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libunicase-420baa79e66eb7be.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libmime-0c405423f2f6d82d.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libnative_tls-cb230d67fabb8e5d.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libopenssl_probe-9ce2191185e4de74.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libopenssl-f4e1d41159b2a15c.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libopenssl_sys-d761d87b2bc00b93.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libforeign_types-289696442456e97a.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libforeign_types_shared-81fde169aac187d8.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libbitflags-ad0a1f0454a30088.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libhyper-7e6648b4650fe710.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libwant-852cffc58ffe3e6c.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libtry_lock-0d0e456c3c6f815b.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libh2-c84ec7b5ed846947.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libtracing_futures-79d6686b1765ad62.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libpin_project-aca85cf2e90e6668.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libtokio_util-31d259494e95e968.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libfutures_sink-37e79a2d3fc2a2f5.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libhttpdate-ec985aa61aaac5ed.rlib\" \"/tmp/codon/tmp/cache/target/release/deps/libsocket2-f092214f6231a7aa.rlib\" ","ecosystem":"cargo","package_name":"heroku","package_version":null,"solution":"As the error message indicates your build system is missing libsqlite3.\n\nThere are two ways to solve this problem:\n\nAdd libsqlite3-sys = { version = \"0.18\", features = [\"bundled\"]} to your Cargo.toml. This instructs the cargo to also build libsqlite3 as part of your application build. The library is statically linked using this method.\n\nInstall libsqlite3 on the build system and use the SQLITE3_LIB_DIR environment variable to point the compiler to the correct directory. libsqlite3 will be linked dynamically, which means you also need to provide this library on the system you are running your application afterwards.","confidence":0.75,"source":"stackoverflow","source_url":"https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65559230/how-to-fix-cannot-find-lsqlite3-error-when-deploying-rust-app-to-heroku","votes":3,"created_at":"2026-04-19T04:52:37.221362+00:00","updated_at":"2026-04-19T04:52:37.221362+00:00"}