source: general/prog/rust.xml@ d6e81e8

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY rust-download-http "https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rustc-&rust-version;-src.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY rust-download-ftp  "">
  <!ENTITY rust-md5sum        "c11d94d9e62f71838b20058f0797357a">
  <!ENTITY rust-size          "28 MB">
  <!ENTITY rust-buildsize     "1.5 GB (208 MB installed) plus 118MB for cargo files">
  <!ENTITY rust-time          "14 SBU (with 4 processors)">
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<sect1 id="rust" xreflabel="rustc-&rust-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="rust.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Rustc-&rust-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="rust">
    <primary sortas="a-rust">Rust</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Rust</title>

    <para>
      The <application>Rust</application> programming language is designed
      to be a safe, concurrent, practical language.
    </para>

    <para>
      As with many  other programming languages, rustc (the rust compiler)
      needs a binary from which to bootstrap. It will download a stage0 binary,
      and several cargo files (these are actually .tar.gz source archives) at
      the start of the build, so you cannot compile it without an internet
      connection.
    </para>

    <para>
      The current <application>rustbuild</application> build-system will use
      all available processors, although it does not scale well and often falls
      back to just using one core while waiting for a library to compile.
    </para>

    <para>
      At the moment <application>Rust</application> does not provide any
      guarantees of a stable ABI, and it is likely that the next few versions
      of <application>firefox</application> will each require the latest version
      of <application>Rust</application>.
    </para>

    &lfs80_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&rust-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&rust-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &rust-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &rust-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &rust-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &rust-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Rust Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="curl"/>,
      <xref linkend="cmake"/> (if not using the recommended <xref linkend="llvm-old"/>),
      <xref linkend="python2"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <!-- acceptable versions of llvm are listed in the tests
           of LLVM_VERSION in configure, currently 3.{7-9}*    -->
      <xref linkend="llvm-old"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="gdb"/> (often required for the testsuite, but some of the
      gdb tests may still fail),
      <xref linkend="ninja"/>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
      User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/rust"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Rust</title>

    <para>
      Install <application>Rust</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr                          \
  --docdir=/usr/share/doc/rustc-&rust-version;             \
  --llvm-root=/opt/llvm3 --enable-llvm-link-shared &amp;&amp;
./x.py build</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      The testsuite in this package selects random subsets of the
      possible tests.  There is no correlation between how long a
      particular run of the testsuite takes, and how many tests
      were run. On occasion, the chosen tests will run in much
      less than 1.0 SBU, on other occasions they may take more
      than 20 SBU. Although it is normal to run the testsuite for
      a compiler, in this case that is very hard to recommend.
    </para>

    <para>
      Nevertheless, if you insist on running the tests issue
      <command>./x.py test</command>: as with the build, that will
      use all available CPUs.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>test -f /usr/lib/libLLVM-3.9.so ||
  ln -sv /opt/llvm3/lib/libLLVM-3.9.so /usr/lib &amp;&amp;

./x.py dist --install</userinput></screen>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <command>--llvm-root=/opt/llvm3 --enable-llvm-link-shared</command>:
      This tells rust to use the system verison of llvm3 installed in
      <filename class="directory">/opt/llvm3</filename>, linking to the
      shared libraries.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--enable-dist-host-only</option>: If you did not install a
      system version of <xref linkend="llvm-old"/>, use this alternative command
      to build the shipped static version of llvm. It will
      <emphasis>compile</emphasis> for all the available linux cross-compilers
      (Aarch64, MIPS, PowerPC, SystemZ, etc) but with this switch it will only
      <emphasis>install</emphasis> for the host architecture.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>RUSTFLAGS="$RUSTFLAGS -C link-args=-lffi"</option>: use this if
      you need to link against a version of LLVM-3 which was compiled against
      <xref linkend="libffi"/>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>ln -sv /opt/llvm3/lib/libLLVM-3.9.so /usr/lib</command>:
      Although the <emphasis>build</emphasis> of <application>Rust</application>
      finds the shared library in
      <filename class="directory">/opt/llvm3/lib</filename>, several of the steps
      run by the <application>rustbuild</application>
      <emphasis>installer</emphasis> do not find
      <filename>libLLVM-3.9.so</filename>. This conditional symlink fixes that,
      and works even if <filename>libLLVM-3.9.{0,1}</filename> has already been
      installed in <filename class="directory">/usr</filename>.
      <emphasis>Omit this command if you did not install a system version of
      <xref linkend="llvm-old"/></emphasis>.
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Program(s)</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Librar(y,ies)</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Director(y,ies)</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          rust-gdb, rust-lldb, rustc, rustdoc.
        </seg>
        <seg>
          Many libraries (libarena, libflate, libfmt_macros, libgetopts,
          libgraphviz, liblog, libproc_macro, librustc*, libserialize,
          libstd, libsyntax, libterm, libtest), all containing a hash in
          their names.
        </seg>
        <seg>
          ~/.cargo,
          /usr/lib/rustlib,
          /usr/share/doc/rustc-&rust-version;.
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="rust-gdb">
        <term><command>rust-gdb</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a Python wrapper script for gdb.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="rust rust-gdb">
            <primary sortas="b-rust-gdb">rust-gdb</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="rust-lldb">
        <term><command>rust-lldb</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a Python wrapper script for LLDB (the LLVM debugger).
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="rust rust-lldb">
            <primary sortas="b-rust-lldb">rust=lldb</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="rustc">
        <term><command>rustc</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the rust compiler.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="rust rustc">
            <primary sortas="b-rustc">rustc</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="rustdoc">
        <term><command>rustdoc</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            generates documentation from rust source code.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="rust rustdoc">
            <primary sortas="b-rustdoc">rustdoc</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libstd">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libstd-&lt;16-byte-hash&gt;.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the Rust Standard Library, the foundation of portable Rust software.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="rust libstd">
            <primary sortas="c-libstd">libstd-&lt;16-byte-hash&gt;.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </sect2>
</sect1>