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| author | Peter Atashian <retep998@gmail.com> | 2016-06-27 13:51:27 -0400 |
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| committer | Peter Atashian <retep998@gmail.com> | 2016-07-02 06:50:35 -0400 |
| commit | be43c654b38af7c194dd5ce56b15b718e4849959 (patch) | |
| tree | 458e0c13be255e109993d8a15b722faf100e21c7 | |
| parent | 2b59647fae4c8d1748d922ef30a872c7b2b5410d (diff) | |
| download | rust-be43c654b38af7c194dd5ce56b15b718e4849959.tar.gz rust-be43c654b38af7c194dd5ce56b15b718e4849959.zip | |
Instructions on how to build Rust with rustbuild
This is a much simpler option for those on Windows who use msvc. Signed-off-by: Peter Atashian <retep998@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index e656585a898..15e01974e9e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ # The Rust Programming Language -This is the main source code repository for [Rust]. It contains the compiler, standard library, -and documentation. +This is the main source code repository for [Rust]. It contains the compiler, +standard library, and documentation. [Rust]: https://www.rust-lang.org @@ -114,6 +114,19 @@ $ ./configure $ make && make install ``` +#### MSVC with rustbuild + +For those who don't want the hassle of MSYS or MinGW, you can invoke rustbuild +directly. All you need are Python 2, CMake, and Git in your PATH (make sure you +do __not__ use the ones from MSYS!). You'll also need Visual Studio 2013 or +newer with the C++ tools. Then all you need to do is invoke the appropriate +vcvars bat file and kick off rustbuild. + +```bat +CALL "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin\amd64\vcvars64.bat" +python .\src\bootstrap\bootstrap.py +``` + ## Building Documentation If you’d like to build the documentation, it’s almost the same: @@ -154,8 +167,8 @@ Snapshot binaries are currently built and tested on several platforms: You may find that other platforms work, but these are our officially supported build environments that are most likely to work. -Rust currently needs between 600MiB and 1.5GiB to build, depending on platform. If it hits -swap, it will take a very long time to build. +Rust currently needs between 600MiB and 1.5GiB to build, depending on platform. +If it hits swap, it will take a very long time to build. There is more advice about hacking on Rust in [CONTRIBUTING.md]. @@ -192,4 +205,5 @@ 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. -See [LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE), [LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT), and [COPYRIGHT](COPYRIGHT) for details. +See [LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE), [LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT), and +[COPYRIGHT](COPYRIGHT) for details. |