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In removing many fields from the crate map, executables no longer always have an
explicit dependency on all upstream libraries. This means that the linker is no
longer picking them up as it used to.
To the best of my knowledge, the current situation is happening:
* On linux, we're passing the --as-needed flag to the linker, meaning that
libraries are stripped out if there are no references to symbols in them.
* Executables may not reference libstd at all, such as "fn main() {}"
* When linking, the linker will discard libstd because there are no references
to symbols in it. I presume that this means that all previous libs have had
all their symbols resolved, so none of the libs are pulling in libstd as a
dependency.
* The only real dependence on libstd comes from the rust_stack_exhausted symbol
(which comes from libmorestack), but -lmorestack is at the end so by the time
this comes up libstd is completely gone, leading to undefined references to
rust_stack_exhausted
I'm not entirely convinced that this is what's happening, but it appears to be
along these lines. The one thing that I'm sure of is that removing the crate map
(and hence implicit dependency on all upstream libraries) has changed how
objects depend on upstream libraries.
The Rust Programming Language
This is a compiler for Rust, including standard libraries, tools and documentation.
Quick Start
Windows
- Download and use the installer and MinGW.
- Read the tutorial.
- Enjoy!
Note: Windows users can read the detailed getting started notes on the wiki.
Linux / OS X
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Make sure you have installed the dependencies:
g++4.4 orclang++3.xpython2.6 or later (but not 3.x)perl5.0 or later- GNU
make3.81 or later curl
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Download and build Rust:
You can either download a tarball or build directly from the repo.
To build from the tarball do:
$ curl -O http://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-0.9.tar.gz $ tar -xzf rust-0.9.tar.gz $ cd rust-0.9Or to build from the repo do:
$ git clone https://github.com/mozilla/rust.git $ cd rustNow that you have Rust's source code, you can configure and build it:
$ ./configure $ make && make installNote: You may need to use
sudo make installif you do not normally have permission to modify the destination directory. The install locations can be adjusted by passing a--prefixargument toconfigure. Various other options are also supported, pass--helpfor more information on them.When complete,
make installwill place several programs into/usr/local/bin:rustc, the Rust compiler, andrustdoc, the API-documentation tool. system. -
Read the tutorial.
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Enjoy!
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:
- Windows (7, 8, Server 2008 R2), x86 only
- Linux (2.6.18 or later, various distributions), x86 and x86-64
- OSX 10.7 (Lion) or greater, x86 and x86-64
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 a lot more documentation in the wiki.
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.
See LICENSE-APACHE, LICENSE-MIT, and COPYRIGHT for details.