On 24/06/14 03:06 PM, Erick Tryzelaar wrote: > I've been (very slowly) working on a pure rust build system > (https://github.com/erickt/rbuild) that we might be able to someday use > to do complex builds without needing other external language or build > system.
Well, +1 for that because it's very cool. However, I don't see a problem with depending on tooling like `make` in a portable library. In my opinion, the only sane way to do Rust development on Windows is via msys2. You get a sane development environment with a reasonable terminal and shell, along with a nice package manager for updating the whole thing along with installing / upgrading many libraries / tools from the msys2 repositories. It also makes it trivial to install tools like gdb, make, sed or python. Otherwise, you'll have the hopeless struggle of manually building tooling / libraries and dealing with upgrades / rebuilds yourself rather than through a package manager. The important part is for the produced binaries to be standalone, and mingw-w64 provides that. The only major weakness is the lack of compatibility with Windows C++ headers and the C++ ABI, although there is ongoing work towards providing that. Rust can't call into C++ directly anyway, so it's not an enormous obstacle.
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