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# WIP Cranelift codegen backend for rust
> ⚠⚠⚠ Certain kinds of FFI don't work yet. ⚠⚠⚠
## Building
```bash
$ git clone https://github.com/bjorn3/rustc_codegen_cranelift.git
$ cd rustc_codegen_cranelift
$ ./prepare.sh # download and patch sysroot src and install hyperfine for benchmarking
$ ./test.sh --release
```
## Usage
`$cg_clif_dir` is the directory you cloned this repo into in the following instruction.
### Cargo
```bash
$ CHANNEL="release" $cg_clif_dir/cargo.sh run
```
If you compiled cg_clif in debug mode you should use `CHANNEL="debug"` instead or omit `CHANNEL="release"` completely.
### Rustc
```bash
$ rustc -Cpanic=abort -Zcodegen-backend=$cg_clif_dir/target/release/librustc_codegen_cranelift.so --sysroot $cg_clif_dir/build_sysroot/sysroot my_crate.rs
```
## Env vars
<dl>
<dt>CG_CLIF_JIT</dt>
<dd>Enable JIT mode to immediately run a program instead of writing an executable file.</dd>
<dt>CG_CLIF_JIT_ARGS</dt>
<dd>When JIT mode is enable pass these arguments to the program.</dd>
<dt>CG_CLIF_INCR_CACHE_DISABLED</dt>
<dd>Don't cache object files in the incremental cache. Useful during development of cg_clif
to make it possible to use incremental mode for all analyses performed by rustc without caching
object files when their content should have been changed by a change to cg_clif.</dd>
<dt>CG_CLIF_DISPLAY_CG_TIME</dt>
<dd>Display the time it took to perform codegen for a crate</dd>
</dl>
## Not yet supported
* Good non-rust abi support ([several problems](https://github.com/bjorn3/rustc_codegen_cranelift/issues/10))
* Checked binops ([some missing instructions in cranelift](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/issues/1044))
* Inline assembly ([no cranelift support](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/issues/1041), not coming soon)
* SIMD ([tracked here](https://github.com/bjorn3/rustc_codegen_cranelift/issues/171), some basic things work)