I am VERY interested in the support of this platform, DragonFlyBSD. Which is a great "Systems OS" in and of itself.
Thanks for your future efforts on it, Michael ! (BTW, in particular, I am interested in access to the HAMMER File System on DragonFlyBSD to begin my experiments) On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Alex Crichton <[email protected]> wrote: > The snapshots themselves are all "static binaries" in the sense that > they have no dynamic rust dependencies and only the "necessary" system > dependencies. Rustc does not generate 0-dependency static binaries > right now that depend on libstd (as that would involve rewriting libc > and writing a syscall interface for all platforms). > > When porting to a new architecture, the general idea is to add support > in the compiler and standard libraries, then use cross compilation > from a supported platform to generate a snapshot for the target > platform, then take the snapshot and bootstrap on the target platform. > > A new platform hasn't shown up in awhile, but this sounds pretty cool! > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Michael Neumann <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > At the moment rust "only" supports Linux/FreeBSD/Windows/MacOSX. I'd > like to > > be > > able to compile it on DragonFlyBSD [1]. > > > > I am trying to get the FreeBSD stage0/bin/rustc to run on DragonFly, yet > > with no success. > > Is it possible to generate a static rustc binary somehow? Or what in > general > > is the procedure > > to "port" rustc to a different platform? > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael > > > > [1]: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Rust-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > -- -Thad +ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry> Thad on LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/>
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