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diff --git a/doc/tutorial/setup.md b/doc/tutorial/setup.md deleted file mode 100644 index f85052961a0..00000000000 --- a/doc/tutorial/setup.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,56 +0,0 @@ -# Getting started - -## Installation - -FIXME Fill this in when the installation package is finished. - -## Compiling your first program - -Rust program files are, by convention, given the extension `.rs`. Say -we have a file `hello.rs` containing this program: - - use std; - fn main(args: [str]) { - std::io::println("hello world from '" + args[0] + "'!"); - } - -If the Rust compiler was installed successfully, running `rustc -hello.rs` will produce a binary called `hello` (or `hello.exe`). - -If you modify the program to make it invalid (for example, remove the -`use std` line), and then compile it, you'll see an error message like -this: - - ## notrust - hello.rs:2:4: 2:20 error: unresolved modulename: std - hello.rs:2 std::io::println("hello world!"); - ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -The Rust compiler tries to provide useful information when it runs -into an error. - -## Anatomy of a Rust program - -In its simplest form, a Rust program is simply a `.rs` file with some -types and functions defined in it. If it has a `main` function, it can -be compiled to an executable. Rust does not allow code that's not a -declaration to appear at the top level of the fileāall statements must -live inside a function. - -Rust programs can also be compiled as libraries, and included in other -programs. The `use std` directive that appears at the top of a lot of -examples imports the [standard library][std]. This is described in more -detail [later on](mod.html). - -[std]: http://doc.rust-lang.org/doc/std/index/General.html - -## Editing Rust code - -There are Vim highlighting and indentation scrips in the Rust source -distribution under `src/etc/vim/`, and an emacs mode under -`src/etc/emacs/`. - -[rust-mode]: https://github.com/marijnh/rust-mode - -Other editors are not provided for yet. If you end up writing a Rust -mode for your favorite editor, let us know so that we can link to it. |
