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Re: [Ghm-discuss] GCC frontend for Rust
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: [Ghm-discuss] GCC frontend for Rust |
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Mon, 09 Sep 2019 09:59:51 +0200 |
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Hello!
Darshit Shah <address@hidden> skribis:
> There's two things I knew about this in the past:
> 1. mrustc: A rust to C compiler. https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc
> The author calls it a compiler, but my understanding is that this is just a
> transpiler.
On that topic, Guix builds Rust entirely from source, using mrustc for
bootstrapping:
https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2018/bootstrapping-rust/
Having mrustc is what makes it possible to build Rust from source.
A Rust front-end in GCC would be even better!
Ludo’.