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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/rust.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/rust.mdwn index 9f0a7696..9ecf6463 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/rust.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/rust.mdwn @@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="Porting Rust"]] +[[!template id=highlight text="""/!\ Obsolete /!\ + +--- + +Vedant Tewari has been working on this as a Google Summer of Code 2023 project."""]] + The goal of this project is to make the [Rust language](https://www.rust-lang.org/) available on GNU/Hurd. @@ -67,3 +73,88 @@ Then one builds the cross-compiler with [Rust language](https://www.rust-lang.org/) [How to build and run Rust](https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/building/how-to-build-and-run.html) + + +--- + +One can check out the result with: + + git clone https://github.com/sthibaul/getrandom.git + git clone https://github.com/sthibaul/nix.git -b r0.26-hack + git clone https://github.com/sthibaul/rust-errno.git -b hack + git clone https://github.com/sthibaul/rust_libloading.git -b v0.7-hack + git clone https://github.com/sthibaul/rust_libloading.git -b hack rust_libloading-0.8.0 + git clone https://github.com/sthibaul/rustix.git -b 0.37-hack + git clone https://github.com/sthibaul/rustix.git -b hack rustix-0.38.6 + git clone https://github.com/sthibaul/socket2.git -b v0.4.x + git clone https://github.com/Vtewari2311/libc.git -b libc-hurd-latest-hack + git clone https://github.com/Vtewari2311/rust.git -b mod-hurd-latest-hack + +(yes, we do need several checkouts of libloading and rustix...) + +--- + +To build from GNU/Hurd, you will need existing `rustc`/`cargo`/`rustfmt`, you +can e.g. fetch the tarball +[from Samuel](https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/rust-hurd.tar.xz). +Then you can add the following to `rust/config.toml` + + [build] + rustc = "/path/to/your/rust-hurd/usr/local/bin/rustc" + rustfmt = "/path/to/your/rust-hurd/usr/local/bin/rustfmt" + cargo = "/path/to/your/rust-hurd/usr/local/bin/cargo" + +And then run from `rust/` + + ./x build + DESTDIR=/where/you/want ./x install + +Expect about 20GB disk usage and several hours duration. You also need quite +some ram, 4GB may be needed. + +--- + +To cross-build (e.g. from Linux), you need to set up a cross build toolchain +; a simple way is to use the `build-many-glibcs.py` script as described on +[[hurd/glibc]]. Note that to produce something that can be run even on current +latest Debian, you should be using the `2.37/master` branch. You also need to +comment the `#define ED` from `sysdeps/mach/hurd/bits/errno.h`. + +You also need to unpack a Hurd build of openssl ; a simple way is to take the +debian packages from debian-ports: +[libssl3](http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-hurd-i386/main/o/openssl/libssl3_3.0.10-1_hurd-i386.deb) +and +[libssl-dev](http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-hurd-i386/main/o/openssl/libssl-dev_3.0.10-1_hurd-i386.deb) +and unpack them with: + + dpkg-deb -x libssl3_3.0.10-1_hurd-i386.deb /where/you/want + dpkg-deb -x libssl-dev_3.0.10-1_hurd-i386.deb /where/you/want + mv /where/you/want/usr/include/i386-gnu/openssl/* /where/you/want/usr/include/openssl/ + mv /where/you/want/usr/lib/i386-gnu/* /where/you/want/usr/lib/ + +Then you can add the following to `rust/config.toml` + + [llvm] + download-ci-llvm = false + + [target.i686-unknown-hurd-gnu] + cc = "/path/to/your/build-glibc/install/compilers/i686-gnu/bin/i686-glibc-gnu-gcc" + cxx = "/path/to/your/build-glibc/install/compilers/i686-gnu/bin/i686-glibc-gnu-g++" + linker = "/path/to/your/build-glibc/install/compilers/i686-gnu/bin/i686-glibc-gnu-gcc" + +And then run from `rust/` + + export I686_UNKNOWN_HURD_GNU_OPENSSL_DIR=/where/you/want/usr + ./x build --stage 0 compiler library + ./x build --host i686-unknown-hurd-gnu --target i686-unknown-hurd-gnu compiler library cargo rustfmt + DESTDIR=/where/you/want ./x install --host i686-unknown-hurd-gnu --target i686-unknown-hurd-gnu + +Expect about 30GB disk usage and several hours duration. You also need quite +some ram, 4GB may be needed. Take care if you have many cores and threads, the +parallel build of llvm can be quite demanding, you may want to reduce the number +of available processors (e.g. disabling SMT by prefixing your commands with +`hwloc-bind --no-smt all -- `), so you have more memory per core. + +Note that you will have a usable cross-compiler in +`rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/bin/rustc` and a native Hurd compiler in +`rust/build/i686-unknown-hurd-gnu/stage2/bin/rustc` |