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Alex Crichton cbeb77ec7a rustc: Fix a leak in dependency= paths
With the addition of separate search paths to the compiler, it was intended that
applications such as Cargo could require a `--extern` flag per `extern crate`
directive in the source. The system can currently be subverted, however, due to
the `existing_match()` logic in the crate loader.

When loading crates we first attempt to match an `extern crate` directive
against all previously loaded crates to avoid reading metadata twice. This "hit
the cache if possible" step was erroneously leaking crates across the search
path boundaries, however. For example:

    extern crate b;
    extern crate a;

If `b` depends on `a`, then it will load crate `a` when the `extern crate b`
directive is being processed. When the compiler reaches `extern crate a` it will
use the previously loaded version no matter what. If the compiler was not
invoked with `-L crate=path/to/a`, it will still succeed.

This behavior is allowing `extern crate` declarations in Cargo without a
corresponding declaration in the manifest of a dependency, which is considered
a bug.

This commit fixes this problem by keeping track of the origin search path for a
crate. Crates loaded from the dependency search path are not candidates for
crates which are loaded from the crate search path.

As a result of this fix, this is a likely a breaking change for a number of
Cargo packages. If the compiler starts informing that a crate can no longer be
found, it likely means that the dependency was forgotten in your Cargo.toml.

[breaking-change]
2015-01-16 08:48:16 -08:00
man Man page/--help dialog fix 2015-01-03 11:34:01 -08:00
mk auto merge of #20802 : huonw/rust/book-css, r=steveklabnik 2015-01-10 05:55:07 +00:00
src rustc: Fix a leak in dependency= paths 2015-01-16 08:48:16 -08:00
.gitattributes webfonts: proper fix 2014-07-08 20:29:36 +02:00
.gitignore gitignore: Add the autogenerated/downloaded unicode data files. 2014-08-03 17:32:53 +10:00
.gitmodules Use rust-installer for installation 2014-12-11 17:14:17 -08:00
.mailmap Update .mailmap 2014-10-23 23:01:31 +02:00
.travis.yml Allow travis to use newer-faster infrastructure for building. http://blog.travis-ci.com/2014-12-17-faster-builds-with-container-based-infrastructure/ 2015-01-01 02:00:29 -05:00
AUTHORS.txt Add new authors, more relnotes 2015-01-06 16:37:38 -08:00
configure "The Rust Programming Language" 2015-01-08 12:02:11 -05:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Put links to discuss.rust-lang.org and #rust-internals in CONTRIBUTING.md 2015-01-02 15:42:38 -08:00
COPYRIGHT Update COPYRIGHT to better reflect the current repo 2014-10-06 10:55:39 -07:00
LICENSE-APACHE Update license, add license boilerplate to most files. Remainder will follow. 2012-12-03 17:12:14 -08:00
LICENSE-MIT Change the licence holder to The Rust Project Developers 2014-05-03 23:59:24 +02:00
Makefile.in Fix incorrect link in Makefile.in documentation 2014-12-28 22:42:12 +01:00
README.md "The Rust Programming Language" 2015-01-08 12:02:11 -05:00
RELEASES.md Link to http://rustbyexample.com/ 2015-01-09 08:25:42 +01:00

The Rust Programming Language

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

Quick Start

  1. Download a binary installer for your platform.
  2. Read The Rust Programming Language.
  3. Enjoy!

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

Building from Source

  1. 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
  2. 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.

  3. Read The Rust Programming Language.

  4. Enjoy!

Building on Windows

To easily build on windows we can use MSYS2:

  1. Grab the latest MSYS2 installer and go through the installer.

  2. 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
    
  3. With that now start mingw32_shell.bat from where you installed MSYS2 (i.e. C:\msys).

  4. 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:

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.

See LICENSE-APACHE, LICENSE-MIT, and COPYRIGHT for details.