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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/rust.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/rust.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ab003f93 --- /dev/null +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/rust.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta title="Porting Rust"]] + +The goal of this project is to make the [Rust +language](https://www.rust-lang.org/) available on GNU/Hurd. + +Presumably less work will be needed on the language's frontend itself, but +rather on the supporting libraries. + + +The Rust language is being used more and more widely, and notably in +rather fundamental libraries such as librsvg or python-cryptography. It +is thus more and more pressing for GNU/Hurd to have a compiler for Rust. + +The Rust compiler itself is quite portable, but its runtime library +needs to be ported to the GNU/Hurd system. This essentially consists in +telling Rust how the standard C library functions can be called. + +And example of the main part of such port can be seen for the [VxWorks +port](https://github.com/rust-lang/libc/blob/master/src/vxworks/mod.rs) + +The bulk of such a file can be mostly generated from the libc C +headers thanks to the bindgen tool, it then needs to be cleaned up and +integrated into the Rust build infrastructure, some preliminary work had +already been investigated in that part. + +A good level of C programming will be welcome to understand the +questions of ABI and the libc C functions being bound. + +Knowing the Rust language is not required: it can be learnt along the +way, this can be a good occasion. + +Possible mentors: [[Samuel Thibault (youpi)|youpi]] + +Exercise: building rust on Linux. + +--- + +[[Open Issue page|open_issues/gccgo]]. [Entry in the GCC +wiki](http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode#gccgo_hurd). |