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Brian Anderson c27133e2ce Preliminary feature staging This partially implements the feature staging described in the [release channel RFC][rc]. It does not yet fully conform to the RFC as written, but does accomplish its goals sufficiently for the 1.0 alpha release. It has three primary user-visible effects: * On the nightly channel, use of unstable APIs generates a warning. * On the beta channel, use of unstable APIs generates a warning. * On the beta channel, use of feature gates generates a warning. Code that does not trigger these warnings is considered 'stable', modulo pre-1.0 bugs. Disabling the warnings for unstable APIs continues to be done in the existing (i.e. old) style, via `#[allow(...)]`, not that specified in the RFC. I deem this marginally acceptable since any code that must do this is not using the stable dialect of Rust. Use of feature gates is itself gated with the new 'unstable_features' lint, on nightly set to 'allow', and on beta 'warn'. The attribute scheme used here corresponds to an older version of the RFC, with the `#[staged_api]` crate attribute toggling the staging behavior of the stability attributes, but the user impact is only in-tree so I'm not concerned about having to make design changes later (and I may ultimately prefer the scheme here after all, with the `#[staged_api]` crate attribute). Since the Rust codebase itself makes use of unstable features the compiler and build system to a midly elaborate dance to allow it to bootstrap while disobeying these lints (which would otherwise be errors because Rust builds with `-D warnings`). This patch includes one significant hack that causes a regression. Because the `format_args!` macro emits calls to unstable APIs it would trigger the lint. I added a hack to the lint to make it not trigger, but this in turn causes arguments to `println!` not to be checked for feature gates. I don't presently understand macro expansion well enough to fix. This is bug #20661. Closes #16678 [rc]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0507-release-channels.md		2015-01-07 15:34:56 -08:00
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README.md

The Rust Programming Language

This is a compiler for Rust, including standard libraries, tools and documentation.

Quick Start

Download a binary installer for your platform.
Read the guide.
Enjoy!

Note: Windows users can read the detailed using Rust on Windows notes on the wiki.

Building from Source

Make sure you have installed the dependencies:
- g++ 4.7 or clang++ 3.x
- python 2.6 or later (but not 3.x)
- perl 5.0 or later
- GNU make 3.81 or later
- curl
- git
Download and build Rust:

You can either download a tarball or build directly from the repo.

To build from the tarball do:
```
 $ curl -O https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-nightly.tar.gz
 $ tar -xzf rust-nightly.tar.gz
 $ cd rust-nightly
```
Or to build from the repo do:
```
 $ git clone https://github.com/rust-lang/rust.git
 $ cd rust
```
Now that you have Rust's source code, you can configure and build it:
```
 $ ./configure
 $ make && make install
```
Note: You may need to use sudo make install if you do not normally have permission to modify the destination directory. The install locations can be adjusted by passing a --prefix argument to configure. Various other options are also supported, pass --help for more information on them.

When complete, make install will place several programs into /usr/local/bin: rustc, the Rust compiler, and rustdoc, the API-documentation tool.
Read the guide.
Enjoy!

Building on Windows

To easily build on windows we can use MSYS2:

Grab the latest MSYS2 installer and go through the installer.
Now from the MSYS2 terminal we want to install the mingw64 toolchain and the other tools we need.
```
 $ pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-toolchain
 $ pacman -S base-devel
```
With that now start mingw32_shell.bat from where you installed MSYS2 (i.e. C:\msys).
From there just navigate to where you have Rust's source code, configure and build it:
```
 $ ./configure
 $ make && make install
```

Notes

Since the Rust compiler is written in Rust, it must be built by a precompiled "snapshot" version of itself (made in an earlier state of development). As such, source builds require a connection to the Internet, to fetch snapshots, and an OS that can execute the available snapshot binaries.

Snapshot binaries are currently built and tested on several platforms:

Windows (7, 8, Server 2008 R2), x86 and x86-64 (64-bit support added in Rust 0.12.0)
Linux (2.6.18 or later, various distributions), x86 and x86-64
OSX 10.7 (Lion) or greater, x86 and x86-64

You may find that other platforms work, but these are our officially supported build environments that are most likely to work.

Rust currently needs about 1.5 GiB of RAM to build without swapping; if it hits swap, it will take a very long time to build.

There is a lot more documentation in the wiki.

Getting help and getting involved

The Rust community congregates in a few places:

StackOverflow - Get help here.
/r/rust - General discussion.
discuss.rust-lang.org - For development of the Rust language itself.

License

Rust is primarily distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0), with portions covered by various BSD-like licenses.