Hi: Where is the original message of this thread?
El mié, 8 feb 2023 a las 0:40, Samuel Thibault (<samuel.thiba...@gnu.org>) escribió: > Hello Jose, > > - GNU Hurd > - The GNU Hurd is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. It > is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to > implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and > other features that are implemented by the Unix kernel or similar > kernels (such as Linux). > - https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ > - Porting Rust to GNU/Hurd > > - The goal of this project is to make the Rust language > (https://www.rust-lang.org/) available on GNU/Hurd. > > The Rust language is being used more and more widely, and notably in > rather fundamental libraries such as librsvg or python-cryptography. It > is thus more and more pressing for GNU/Hurd to have a compiler for Rust. > > The Rust compiler itself is quite portable, but its runtime library, > libstd, needs to be ported to the GNU/Hurd system. This essentially > consists in telling Rust how the standard C library functions can be > called. > > And example of the main part of such port can be seen for the VxWorks > port: > https://github.com/rust-lang/libc/blob/master/src/vxworks/mod.rs > > The bulk of such a file can be mostly generated from the libc C > headers thanks to the bindgen tool, it then needs to be cleaned up and > integrated into the Rust build infrastructure, some preliminary work had > already been investigated in that part. > > A cross-bootstrap from Linux will then need to be achieved to build > rustc and cargo, and then it will be self-hosted on GNU/Hurd. > > - A good level of C programming will be welcome to understand the > questions of ABI and the libc C functions being bound. > > Knowing the Rust language is not required: it can be learnt along the > way, this can be a good occasion. > > - bug-hurd@gnu.org > - https://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/community/gsoc/project_ideas/rust/ > https://www.rust-lang.org/ > https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/building/how-to-build-and-run.html > > Samuel > >
