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Instructions on how to build Rust with rustbuild

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This is a much simpler option for those on Windows who use msvc.

Signed-off-by: Peter Atashian <retep998@gmail.com>
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# The Rust Programming Language
This is the main source code repository for [Rust]. It contains the compiler, standard library,
and documentation.
This is the main source code repository for [Rust]. It contains the compiler,
standard library, and documentation.
[Rust]: https://www.rust-lang.org
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$ make && make install
```
#### MSVC with rustbuild
For those who don't want the hassle of MSYS or MinGW, you can invoke rustbuild
directly. All you need are Python 2, CMake, and Git in your PATH (make sure you
do __not__ use the ones from MSYS!). You'll also need Visual Studio 2013 or
newer with the C++ tools. Then all you need to do is invoke the appropriate
vcvars bat file and kick off rustbuild.
```bat
CALL "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin\amd64\vcvars64.bat"
python .\src\bootstrap\bootstrap.py
```
## Building Documentation
If you’d like to build the documentation, it’s almost the same:
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You may find that other platforms work, but these are our officially
supported build environments that are most likely to work.
Rust currently needs between 600MiB and 1.5GiB to build, depending on platform. If it hits
swap, it will take a very long time to build.
Rust currently needs between 600MiB and 1.5GiB to build, depending on platform.
If it hits swap, it will take a very long time to build.
There is more advice about hacking on Rust in [CONTRIBUTING.md].
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and the Apache License (Version 2.0), with portions covered by various
BSD-like licenses.
See [LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE), [LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT), and [COPYRIGHT](COPYRIGHT) for details.
See [LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE), [LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT), and
[COPYRIGHT](COPYRIGHT) for details.