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| author | John Clements <clements@racket-lang.org> | Thu Jan 24 15:32:20 2013 -0800 |
| committer | John Clements <clements@racket-lang.org> | Fri Jan 25 11:58:33 2013 -0800 |
| tree | 9ff749c9e5e11487c496bcbd3f0370c5a693d07e | |
| parent | 85a34c2898b6a64f319f288e69b8cd433a660a17 [diff] |
doc typo
This is a compiler for Rust, including standard libraries, tools and documentation.
The Rust compiler currently must be built from a tarball, unless you are on Windows, in which case using the installer is recommended.
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:
You may find that other platforms work, but these are our “tier 1” supported build environments that are most likely to work.
Note: Windows users should read the detailed getting started notes on the wiki. Even when using the binary installer the Windows build requires a MinGW installation, the precise details of which are not discussed here.
To build from source you will also need the following prerequisite packages:
Assuming you're on a relatively modern *nix system and have met the prerequisites, something along these lines should work.
$ wget http://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-0.5.tar.gz $ tar -xzf rust-0.5.tar.gz $ cd rust-0.5 $ ./configure $ make && make install
You may need to use sudo make install if you do not normally have permission to modify the destination directory. The install locations can be adjusted by passing a --prefix argument to configure. Various other options are also supported, pass --help for more information on them.
When complete, make install will place several programs into /usr/local/bin: rustc, the Rust compiler; rustdoc, the API-documentation tool, and cargo, the Rust package manager.
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.
The tutorial is a good starting point.