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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/rust.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/rust.mdwn index 868a7afd..ff7a8814 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/rust.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/rust.mdwn @@ -23,9 +23,13 @@ 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, libstd, needs to be ported to the GNU/Hurd system. This essentially consists in telling -Rust how the standard C library functions can be called. +Rust how the standard C library functions can be called, i.e. the C ABI. -An example of the main part of such port can be seen for the [VxWorks +There as an [initial attempt against rustc 1.30](https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/rustc-1.30-patch) that was enough to get rustc +to crossbuild, but it was missing most of what libstd needs. It is most probably +very outdated nowadays, but that gives an idea. + +An example of the main part of the libstd 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 @@ -39,9 +43,21 @@ 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)|samuelthibault]] +Possible mentors: [[Samuel Thibault (youpi)|samuelthibault]] samuel.thibault@gnu.org + +For somebody who has already a very good level of C programming and good Rust +programming skills, this can probably be a 175-hour project. Otherwise it will +be a good occasion to learn, and can then be a 350-hour project. + +It is expected to be of medium difficulty: a fair part of the port is about +mimicing other ports. Deciding how to mimic can be discussed with the community +anyway. The other part is about expressing the C ABI. This requires to properly +understand what that means, but once that is understood, it should be relatively +straightforward to implement. + +You can contact the bug-hurd@gnu.org mailing list to discuss about this project. -Exercise: Building the Debian rustc package on Debian GNU/Linux. +Bonding exercise: Building the Debian rustc package on Debian GNU/Linux. Building some Debian package (not rustc) on Debian GNU/Hurd. [Rust language](https://www.rust-lang.org/) |