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# The Rust Programming Language
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This is a compiler for Rust, including standard libraries, tools and
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documentation.
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## Installation
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The Rust compiler is slightly unusual in that it is written in Rust and
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therefore must be built by a precompiled "snapshot" version of itself (made in
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an earlier state of development). As such, source builds require that:
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* You are connected to the internet, to fetch snapshots.
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* You can at least execute snapshot binaries of one of the forms we offer
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them in. Currently we build and test snapshots on:
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* Windows (7, server 2008 r2) x86 only
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* Linux 2.6.x (various distributions) x86 and x86-64
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* OSX 10.6 ("Snow leopard") or 10.7 ("Lion") x86 and x86-64
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You may find other platforms work, but these are our "tier 1" supported build
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environments that are most likely to work. Further platforms will be added to
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the list in the future via cross-compilation.
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To build from source you will also need the following prerequisite packages:
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* g++ 4.4 or clang++ 3.x
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* python 2.6 or later
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* perl 5.0 or later
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* gnu make 3.81 or later
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* curl
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Assuming you're on a relatively modern Linux/OSX system and have met the
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prerequisites, something along these lines should work:
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$ tar -xzf rust-0.4.tar.gz
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$ cd rust-0.4
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$ ./configure
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$ make && make install
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When complete, make install will place the following programs into
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/usr/local/bin:
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* rustc, the Rust compiler
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* rustdoc, the API-documentation tool
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* cargo, the Rust package manager
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In addition to a manual page under /usr/local/share/man and a set of host and
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target libraries under /usr/local/lib/rustc.
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The install locations can be adjusted by passing a --prefix argument to
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configure. Various other options are also supported, pass --help for more
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information on them.
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## License
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Rust is primarily distributed under the terms of the MIT license, with
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portions covered by various BSD-like licenses.
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See LICENSE.txt for complete terms of copyright and redistribution.
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## More help
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The [tutorial](http://dl.rust-lang.org/doc/tutorial.html) is a good
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starting point.
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