Ninja substantially improves LLVM build time. On a 96-way system, using
Make took 248s, and using Ninja took 161s, a 35% improvement.
We already require a variety of tools to build Rust. If someone wants to
build without Ninja (for instance, to minimize the set of packages
required to bootstrap a new target), they can easily set `ninja=false`
in `config.toml`. Our defaults should help people build Rust (and LLVM)
faster, to speed up development.
From [a conversation in discord](https://discordapp.com/channels/442252698964721669/443151243398086667/719200989269327882):
> Linking seems to consume all available RAM, leading to the OS to swap memory to disk and slowing down everything in the process
Compiling itself doesn't seem to take up as much RAM, and I'm only looking to check whether a minimal testcase can be compiled by rustc, where the runtime performance isn't much of an issue
> do you have debug = true or debuginfo-level = 2 in config.toml?
> if so I think that results in over 2GB of debuginfo nowadays and is likely the culprit
> which might mean we're giving out bad advice :(
Anecdotally, this sped up my stage 1 build from 15 to 10 minutes.
This still adds line numbers, it only removes variable and type information.
- Improve wording for debuginfo description
Co-authored-by: Teymour Aldridge <42674621+teymour-aldridge@users.noreply.github.com>
`rustc` allows passing in predefined target triples as well as JSON
target specification files. This change allows bootstrap to have the
first inkling about those differences. This allows building a
cross-compiler for an out-of-tree architecture (even though that
compiler won't work for other reasons).
Even if no one ever uses this functionality, I think the newtype
around the `Interned<String>` improves the readability of the code.
Provide separate option for std debug asserts
On local one-off benchmarking of libcore metadata-only, debug asserts in std are a significant hit (15s to 20s). Provide an option for compiler developers to disable them. A build with a nightly compiler is around 10s, for reference.
This allows configuring the directory for build artifacts, instead of having it always be ./build. This means you can set it to a constant location, letting you reuse the same cache while working in several different directories.
The configuration lives in config.toml under build.build-dir. By default, it keeps the existing default of ./build, but it can be configured to any relative or absolute path. Additionally, it allows making outputs relative to the root of the git repository using $ROOT.
The current check for wether a target is no_std or not is matching for the
string "-none-" in a target triple. This doesn't work for triples that end in
"-none", like "aarch64-unknown-none".
Fix this by matching for "-none" instead.
I checked for all the current target triples containing "none", and this should
not generate any false positives.
This fixes an issue encountered in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/68334
Background: targets can be specied with or without config files;
unneccessarily differences in the logic between those cases has caused
a) the bug I tried to fix in the previous commit, b) the bug I
introduced in the previous commit.
The solution is to make the code paths the same as much as possible.
1. Targets are now not created from the `default` method. (I would both
remove the impl if this was a public library, but just wrap it for
convience becaues it's not.) Instead, there is a `from_triple` method
which does the defaulting.
2. Besides the sanity checking, use the new method in the code reading
config files. Now `no_std` is overriden iff set explicitly just like the
other fields which are optional in the TOML AST type.
3. In sanity checking, just populate the map for all targets no matter
what. That way do don't duplicate logic trying to be clever and remember
which targets have "non standard" overrides. Sanity checking is back to
just sanity checking, and out of the game of trying to default too.
Currently, it is only set correctly in the sanity checking implicit
default fallback code. Having a config file at all will for force
`no_std = false`.
Enable Control Flow Guard in rustbuild
Now that Rust supports Control Flow Guard (#68180), add a config.toml option to build the standard library with CFG enabled.
r? @nagisa
Add an option to use LLD to link the compiler on Windows platforms
Based on https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/68609.
Using LLD is good way to improve compile times on Windows since `link.exe` is quite slow. The time for `x.py build --stage 1 src/libtest` goes from 0:12:00 to 0:08:29. Compile time for `rustc_driver` goes from 226.34s to 18.5s. `rustc_macros` goes from 28.69s to 7.7s. The size of `rustc_driver` is also reduced from 83.3 MB to 78.7 MB.
r? @Mark-Simulacrum
allow rustfmt key in [build] section
Permit using `rustfmt` in `config.toml`. It will allow to not download `rustfmt` binary, which is not possible for at least some tiers-3 platforms.
Fixes: #67624
r? @Mark-Simulacrum
This commit builds on #65501 continue to simplify the build system and
compiler now that we no longer have multiple LLVM backends to ship by
default. Here this switches the compiler back to what it once was long
long ago, which is linking LLVM directly to the compiler rather than
dynamically loading it at runtime. The `codegen-backends` directory of
the sysroot no longer exists and all relevant support in the build
system is removed. Note that `rustc` still supports a dynamically loaded
codegen backend as it did previously, it just no longer supports
dynamically loaded codegen backends in its own sysroot.
Additionally as part of this the `librustc_codegen_llvm` crate now once
again explicitly depends on all of its crates instead of implicitly
loading them through the sysroot. This involved filling out its
`Cargo.toml` and deleting all the now-unnecessary `extern crate`
annotations in the header of the crate. (this in turn required adding a
number of imports for names of macros too).
The end results of this change are:
* Rustbuild's build process for the compiler as all the "oh don't forget
the codegen backend" checks can be easily removed.
* Building `rustc_codegen_llvm` is much simpler since it's simply
another compiler crate.
* Managing the dependencies of `rustc_codegen_llvm` is much simpler since
it's "just another `Cargo.toml` to edit"
* The build process should be a smidge faster because there's more
parallelism in the main rustc build step rather than splitting
`librustc_codegen_llvm` out to its own step.
* The compiler is expected to be slightly faster by default because the
codegen backend does not need to be dynamically loaded.
* Disabling LLVM as part of rustbuild is still supported, supporting
multiple codegen backends is still supported, and dynamic loading of a
codegen backend is still supported.
In bootstrap, we set `RUSTC_INSTALL_BINDIR` to `config.bindir`, so
rustdoc can find rustc relative to the toolchain sysroot. However, if a
distro script like Fedora's `%configure` sets an absolute path, then
rustdoc's `sysroot.join(bin_path)` ignores that sysroot altogether.
That would be OK once the toolchain is actually installed, but it breaks
the in-tree doc tests during the build, since `/usr/bin/rustc` is still
the old version. So now we try to make `RUSTC_INSTALL_BINDIR` relative
to the sysroot prefix in the first place.
With #65251 landed there's no need to build two LLVM backends and ship
them with rustc, every target we have now uses the same LLVM backend!
This removes the `src/llvm-emscripten` submodule and additionally
removes all support from rustbuild for building the emscripten LLVM
backend. Multiple codegen backend support is left in place for now, and
this is intended to be an easy 10-15 minute win on CI times by avoiding
having to build LLVM twice.
This ensures that the failure cases for finding the codegen backend and
for finding the rustc binary are essentially the same, and since we
almost always will load the codegen backend, this is essentially meaning
that the rustc change is not a regression.
This commit removes the `wasm_syscall` feature from the
wasm32-unknown-unknown build of the standard library. This feature was
originally intended to allow an opt-in way to interact with the
operating system in a posix-like way but it was never stabilized.
Nowadays with the advent of the `wasm32-wasi` target that should
entirely replace the intentions of the `wasm_syscall` feature.
This commit moves RISC-V from the experimental LLVM targets to the
regular LLVM targets. RISC-V was made non-experimental in
https://reviews.llvm.org/rL366399
I have also sorted the list of LLVM targets, and changed the code
around setting llvm_exp_targets (and its default) to match the code
setting llvm_targets (and its default), ensuring future changes to
the defaults, as LLVM targets become stable, affect as few places as
possible.
This commit adds a new wasm32-based target distributed through rustup,
supported in the standard library, and implemented in the compiler. The
`wasm32-unknown-wasi` target is intended to be a WebAssembly target
which matches the [WASI proposal recently announced.][LINK]. In summary
the WASI target is an effort to define a standard set of syscalls for
WebAssembly modules, allowing WebAssembly modules to not only be
portable across architectures but also be portable across environments
implementing this standard set of system calls.
The wasi target in libstd is still somewhat bare bones. This PR does not
fill out the filesystem, networking, threads, etc. Instead it only
provides the most basic of integration with the wasi syscalls, enabling
features like:
* `Instant::now` and `SystemTime::now` work
* `env::args` is hooked up
* `env::vars` will look up environment variables
* `println!` will print to standard out
* `process::{exit, abort}` should be hooked up appropriately
None of these APIs can work natively on the `wasm32-unknown-unknown`
target, but with the assumption of the WASI set of syscalls we're able
to provide implementations of these syscalls that engines can implement.
Currently the primary engine implementing wasi is [wasmtime], but more
will surely emerge!
In terms of future development of libstd, I think this is something
we'll probably want to discuss. The purpose of the WASI target is to
provide a standardized set of syscalls, but it's *also* to provide a
standard C sysroot for compiling C/C++ programs. This means it's
intended that functions like `read` and `write` are implemented for this
target with a relatively standard definition and implementation. It's
unclear, therefore, how we want to expose file descriptors and how we'll
want to implement system primitives. For example should `std::fs::File`
have a libc-based file descriptor underneath it? The raw wasi file
descriptor? We'll see! Currently these details are all intentionally
hidden and things we can change over time.
A `WasiFd` sample struct was added to the standard library as part of
this commit, but it's not currently used. It shows how all the wasi
syscalls could be ergonomically bound in Rust, and they offer a possible
implementation of primitives like `std::fs::File` if we bind wasi file
descriptors exactly.
Apart from the standard library, there's also the matter of how this
target is integrated with respect to its C standard library. The
reference sysroot, for example, provides managment of standard unix file
descriptors and also standard APIs like `open` (as opposed to the
relative `openat` inspiration for the wasi ssycalls). Currently the
standard library relies on the C sysroot symbols for operations such as
environment management, process exit, and `read`/`write` of stdio fds.
We want these operations in Rust to be interoperable with C if they're
used in the same process. Put another way, if Rust and C are linked into
the same WebAssembly binary they should work together, but that requires
that the same C standard library is used.
We also, however, want the `wasm32-unknown-wasi` target to be
usable-by-default with the Rust compiler without requiring a separate
toolchain to get downloaded and configured. With that in mind, there's
two modes of operation for the `wasm32-unknown-wasi` target:
1. By default the C standard library is statically provided inside of
`liblibc.rlib` distributed as part of the sysroot. This means that
you can `rustc foo.wasm --target wasm32-unknown-unknown` and you're
good to go, a fully workable wasi binary pops out. This is
incompatible with linking in C code, however, which may be compiled
against a different sysroot than the Rust code was previously
compiled against. In this mode the default of `rust-lld` is used to
link binaries.
2. For linking with C code, the `-C target-feature=-crt-static` flag
needs to be passed. This takes inspiration from the musl target for
this flag, but the idea is that you're no longer using the provided
static C runtime, but rather one will be provided externally. This
flag is intended to also get coupled with an external `clang`
compiler configured with its own sysroot. Therefore you'll typically
use this flag with `-C linker=/path/to/clang-script-wrapper`. Using
this mode the Rust code will continue to reference standard C
symbols, but the definition will be pulled in by the linker configured.
Alright so that's all the current state of this PR. I suspect we'll
definitely want to discuss this before landing of course! This PR is
coupled with libc changes as well which I'll be posting shortly.
[LINK]:
[wasmtime]:
