[rust-dev] Windows Users can build Rust properly again !

2013-09-12 Thread Thad Guidry
I have updated and added new steps (Step 5) that correctly install the needed pthread libraries for Windows users of MinGW. Rust now correctly compiles Stage0, Stage1, Stage2 out of the box following the updated guide here:

Re: [rust-dev] Compiler assertion and trait impl question

2013-09-12 Thread Felix S. Klock II
Carl, David (cc'ing rust-dev)_ Note that #6396 is about the 'self lifetime. That may or may not be related to the rustc assertion failure that David mentions in one of his comments, but I think the bulk of his example does not use lifetimes at all. (So I'm assuming that his main issues

Re: [rust-dev] Compiler assertion and trait impl question

2013-09-12 Thread David Brown
6396 does seem to be the issue with the commented out function, and changing self to another identifier lets that compile. But, yes, my main issue is with the impl of inner. I did get a variant to compile and now I'm getting a runtime failure about 'borrowed' that I'll look into more this

Re: [rust-dev] Compiler assertion and trait impl question

2013-09-12 Thread Carl Eastlund
Oh, yes, sorry. I saw the assertion failure and responded to that, and missed the other problem he was talking about. Carl Eastlund On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Felix S. Klock II pnkfe...@mozilla.comwrote: Carl, David (cc'ing rust-dev)_ Note that #6396 is about the 'self lifetime.

[rust-dev] lib: Is anybody working on the datetime library?

2013-09-12 Thread Luis de Bethencourt
Hello everyone, I'm interested in helping with some module development. A good way to learn Rust by using it and help Rust at the same time. Of the wanted modules in this page: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Libs I'm attracted to datetime: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Lib-datetime

[rust-dev] This Week in Rust

2013-09-12 Thread Corey Richardson
Sorry it is late; it has been on my blog and reddit, but I forgot to post it here. Content copied from http://cmr.github.io/blog/2013/09/07/this-week-in-rust/ -- Welcome to another *This Week in Rust*. # What's cooking in master? 65 pull requests were merged this week, and bors has had some

Re: [rust-dev] Windows Users can build Rust properly again !

2013-09-12 Thread Brian Anderson
On 09/12/2013 12:39 PM, Thad Guidry wrote: Yeah, there should not be a reason anymore, if I am correct, to not have GCC 4.7 in MinGW for Rust Windows users anymore. I will give that a try also , and if it works, then we can close out (#8598 https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/8598). (I

Re: [rust-dev] Windows Users can build Rust properly again !

2013-09-12 Thread Thad Guidry
Yes, that's the game plan I have...and klutzy and Vadim getting the mingw-w64 toolchain working. On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Brian Anderson bander...@mozilla.comwrote: On 09/12/2013 12:39 PM, Thad Guidry wrote: Yeah, there should not be a reason anymore, if I am correct, to not

Re: [rust-dev] Windows Users can build Rust properly again !

2013-09-12 Thread Vadim
Hi Brian, Actually, I would argue that these changes *should* be made before 0.8 release in order to smoothen the path of people who will install 0.8 to try it out. Regarding the work to be done, as far as I know all you need is: 1. Save libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll and libstdc++-6.dll from %mingw%\bin 2.

Re: [rust-dev] Windows Users can build Rust properly again !

2013-09-12 Thread Thad Guidry
Doesn't work... Errors regarding libuv and mswsock... http://pastebin.mozilla.org/3038909 On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Vadim vadi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, Actually, I would argue that these changes *should* be made before 0.8 release in order to smoothen the path of people who

Re: [rust-dev] This Week in Rust

2013-09-12 Thread Luis de Bethencourt
Thanks Corey! This updates are great to keep track of all things Rust. Kudos :) Luis On 12 September 2013 17:28, Corey Richardson co...@octayn.net wrote: Sorry it is late; it has been on my blog and reddit, but I forgot to post it here. Content copied from

Re: [rust-dev] lib: Is anybody working on the datetime library?

2013-09-12 Thread Bardur Arantsson
On 2013-09-12 22:12, Luis de Bethencourt wrote: Hello everyone, I'm interested in helping with some module development. A good way to learn Rust by using it and help Rust at the same time. Of the wanted modules in this page: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Libs I see that this