"fringe platforms which can't even run a Rust compiler"
"fringe platforms which can't even run a Rust compiler"
Posted Feb 13, 2021 22:12 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: "fringe platforms which can't even run a Rust compiler" by sthibaul
Parent article: Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo
It depends on what you WANT to do. If you're bringing up a small embedded platform then you don't need to run cargo on it. You just do cross-compilation, which only requires LLVM for the target.
If you want to bring up a full large-scale OS (think Fuchsia or Linux) then you'll need a libc for Python and other tools anyway. You'll need to port the libc crate to that OS as well, but this will be a pretty small task overall compared to the amount of work you have to do.
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