My question is rather theoretical, from the libre-and-open-source-software point of view.
Bootstrapping needs an already existing language to compile the first executable version of Rust. I read that this was OCaml at some time. I do not have OCaml on my machine, but still managed to build from a cloned Rust repo. The documentation says that building requires a C++ compiler. These suggest that the project moved from OCaml to C++. But there are also some texts on the web and in the source that suggests that stage0 is actually not compiled from the source repository, but is downloaded as a binary snapshot. If this latter is the case, then can someone compile a suitable stage0 from [C++|OCaml] source himself?
_______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
