This is a compiler for Rusty, including standard libraries, tools and documentation. Rusty 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.
It also crashes immediately upon execution.
Read "Installing Rusty" from The Book.
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Make sure you have installed the dependencies:
g++4.7 orclang++3.xpython2.6 or later (but not 3.x)- GNU
make3.81 or later curlgit
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Clone the source with
git:$ git clone https://github.com/rust-lang/rust.git $ cd rust
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Build and install:
$ ./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 Rusty compiler, andrustdoc, the API-documentation tool. This install does not include Cargo, Rusty's package manager, which you may also want to build.
MSYS2 can be used to easily build Rusty on Windows:
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Grab the latest MSYS2 installer and go through the installer.
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From the MSYS2 terminal, install the
mingw64toolchain 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.batormingw64_shell.batfrom wherever you installed MYSY2 (i.e.C:\msys), depending on whether you want 32-bit or 64-bit Rusty. -
Navigate to Rusty's source code, configure and build it:
$ ./configure $ make && make install
Since the Rusty compiler is written in Rusty, 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 and x86-64 (64-bit support added in Rusty 0.12.0)
- 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.
Rusty 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 Rusty in CONTRIBUTING.md.
The Rusty 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.
To contribute to Rusty, please see CONTRIBUTING.
Rusty 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 Rusty, and a good place to ask for help.
Rusty 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.