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Geoffrey Thomas 058a0f0b0b liblibc: Fix prototype of functions taking `char const argv[]` The execv family of functions do not modify their arguments, so they do not need mutable pointers. The C prototypes take a constant array of mutable C-strings, but that's a legacy quirk from before C had const (since C string literals have type `char `). The Rust prototypes had `mut` in the wrong place, anyway: to match the C prototypes, it should have been `const mut c_char`. But it is safe to pass constant strings (like string literals) to these functions. getopt is a special case, since GNU getopt modifies its arguments despite the `const` claim in the prototype. It is apparently only well-defined to call getopt on the actual argc and argv parameters passed to main, anyway. Change it to take `mut *mut c_char` for an attempt at safety, but probably nobody should be using it from Rust, since there's no great way to get at the parameters as passed to main. Also fix the one caller of execvp in libstd, which now no longer needs an unsafe cast. Fixes #16290.		2015-06-19 23:34:37 -04:00
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The Rust Programming Language

Rust is a systems programming language that is fast, memory safe and multithreaded, but does not employ a garbage collector or otherwise impose significant runtime overhead.

This repo contains the code for rustc, the Rust compiler, as well as standard libraries, tools and documentation for Rust.

Quick Start

Read "Installing Rust" from The Book.

Building from Source

Make sure you have installed the dependencies:
- g++ 4.7 or clang++ 3.x
- python 2.6 or later (but not 3.x)
- GNU make 3.81 or later
- curl
- git

Clone the source with git:

$ git clone https://github.com/rust-lang/rust.git
$ cd rust

Build and install:
```
$ ./configure
$ make && make install
```
Note: You may need to use sudo make install if you do not normally have permission to modify the destination directory. The install locations can be adjusted by passing a --prefix argument to configure. Various other options are also supported – pass --help for more information on them.

When complete, make install will place several programs into /usr/local/bin: rustc, the Rust compiler, and rustdoc, the API-documentation tool. This install does not include Cargo, Rust's package manager, which you may also want to build.

Building on Windows

MSYS2 can be used to easily build Rust on Windows:

Grab the latest MSYS2 installer and go through the installer.

From the MSYS2 terminal, install the mingw64 toolchain and other required tools.

# Choose one based on platform:
$ pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-toolchain
$ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain

$ pacman -S base-devel

Run mingw32_shell.bat or mingw64_shell.bat from wherever you installed MYSY2 (i.e. C:\msys), depending on whether you want 32-bit or 64-bit Rust.
Navigate to Rust's source code, configure and build it:
```
$ ./configure
$ make && make install
```

Notes

Since the Rust compiler is written in Rust, it must be built by a precompiled "snapshot" version of itself (made in an earlier state of development). As such, source builds require a connection to the Internet, to fetch snapshots, and an OS that can execute the available snapshot binaries.

Snapshot binaries are currently built and tested on several platforms:

Platform \ Architecture	x86	x86_64
Windows (7, 8, Server 2008 R2)	✓	✓
Linux (2.6.18 or later)	✓	✓
OSX (10.7 Lion or later)	✓	✓

You may find that other platforms work, but these are our officially supported build environments that are most likely to work.

Rust currently needs about 1.5 GiB of RAM to build without swapping; if it hits swap, it will take a very long time to build.

There is more advice about hacking on Rust in CONTRIBUTING.md.

Getting Help

The Rust community congregates in a few places:

Stack Overflow - Direct questions about using the language.
users.rust-lang.org - General discussion and broader questions.
/r/rust - News and general discussion.

Contributing

To contribute to Rust, please see CONTRIBUTING.

Rust has an IRC culture and most real-time collaboration happens in a variety of channels on Mozilla's IRC network, irc.mozilla.org. The most popular channel is #rust, a venue for general discussion about Rust, and a good place to ask for help.

License

Rust is primarily distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0), with portions covered by various BSD-like licenses.

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