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Rustaceans at the border

Rustaceans at the border

Posted Apr 16, 2022 8:35 UTC (Sat) by atnot (guest, #124910)
In reply to: Rustaceans at the border by pkolloch
Parent article: Rustaceans at the border

What would that provide over just using rustc directly?

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Rustaceans at the border

Posted Apr 16, 2022 17:45 UTC (Sat) by pkolloch (subscriber, #21709) [Link]

There is a lot of plumbing that cargo does:

  • setting env variables
  • running build scripts
  • setting features
  • setting something like a symbol prefix to avoid clashes
  • linker flags
  • ... and a lot of other details

It's surprisingly hard to replicate. I know because I helped doing it for nix with contributions to buildRustCrate in nixpkgs and creating crate2nix.


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