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List:       netbsd-users
Subject:    Re: Rust on Rumprun
From:       Antti Kantee <pooka () iki ! fi>
Date:       2015-09-28 0:26:56
Message-ID: 56088950.8060805 () iki ! fi
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On 27/09/15 17:15, Antti Kantee wrote:
> On 27/09/15 16:49, Sebastian Wicki wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm happy to announce that Rust programming language now has support
>> for Rumprun [1] in upstream. This includes support for the Rust
>> standard library, which now works properly with NetBSDs libc as well.
>
> Awesome!  I'm cc'ing netbsd-users@netbsd.org, since no doubt folks
> running "just" NetBSD will also be excited about your work.
>
>> The rumprun-packages repository contains a Makefile with README [2]
>> that will build a Rust cross-compiler and the cargo package manager /
>> build tool. It also builds a small tool called "cargo rumpbake", which
>> will invoke "rumpbake" automatically on generated binaries. Using
>> cargo or cargo-rumpbake is optional, invoking rumpbake directly will
>> work as well. Baking currently only works for a single executable (see
>> the prevous thread about multibake symbol issues [3]). Also, working
>> NetBSD support in Rust fairly new, so there might be bugs.
>>
>> The obligatory screenshot can be found my personal blog [4]. Feedback
>> and testing is always welcome.
>
> The package also builds for a very long time ;)
>
> I'm currently waiting for the build to finish to repeat your results ...
> I need a faster computer.

Armed with quite a while of not looking, rustc and cargo seem to have 
built just fine and from what I can observe from compiling/running the 
simple examples bundled in the package, they also appear to work.

Good show!
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