This commit implements the support necessary for generating both intermediate
and result static rust libraries. This is an implementation of my thoughts in
https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-November/006686.html.
When compiling a library, we still retain the "lib" option, although now there
are "rlib", "staticlib", and "dylib" as options for crate_type (and these are
stackable). The idea of "lib" is to generate the "compiler default" instead of
having too choose (although all are interchangeable). For now I have left the
"complier default" to be a dynamic library for size reasons.
Of the rust libraries, lib{std,extra,rustuv} will bootstrap with an
rlib/dylib pair, but lib{rustc,syntax,rustdoc,rustpkg} will only be built as a
dynamic object. I chose this for size reasons, but also because you're probably
not going to be embedding the rustc compiler anywhere any time soon.
Other than the options outlined above, there are a few defaults/preferences that
are now opinionated in the compiler:
* If both a .dylib and .rlib are found for a rust library, the compiler will
prefer the .rlib variant. This is overridable via the -Z prefer-dynamic option
* If generating a "lib", the compiler will generate a dynamic library. This is
overridable by explicitly saying what flavor you'd like (rlib, staticlib,
dylib).
* If no options are passed to the command line, and no crate_type is found in
the destination crate, then an executable is generated
With this change, you can successfully build a rust program with 0 dynamic
dependencies on rust libraries. There is still a dynamic dependency on
librustrt, but I plan on removing that in a subsequent commit.
This change includes no tests just yet. Our current testing
infrastructure/harnesses aren't very amenable to doing flavorful things with
linking, so I'm planning on adding a new mode of testing which I believe belongs
as a separate commit.
Closes#552
Instead of forcibly always aborting compilation, allow usage of
#[warn(unknown_features)] and related lint attributes to selectively abort
compilation. By default, this lint is deny.
Instead of forcibly always aborting compilation, allow usage of
#[warn(unknown_features)] and related lint attributes to selectively abort
compilation. By default, this lint is deny.
I'll flip this on after doing a snapshot. This syntax may or may not
stay around, and managed boxes are currently not very useful. They have
the same overall performance characteristics as `std::rc::Rc`, but are
significantly slower, allocate larger boxes and hold onto the memory
beyond when it is needed due to lacking move semantics.
There are currently two useful aspects of the type:
* the dereference sugar, which we should implement for `Rc`
* the annihilator freeing cycles at the end of the task
A few features are now hidden behind various #[feature(...)] directives. These
include struct-like enum variants, glob imports, and macro_rules! invocations.
Closes#9304Closes#9305Closes#9306Closes#9331
