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I was hoping this was an announcement of Emscripten support for Rust :(

steveklabnik 12y ago
We need Emscripten to upgrade their LLVM, last I heard. We're running a pretty cutting-edge version at the moment.
kibwen 12y ago
People are eagerly working on it: http://users.rust-lang.org/t/rust-to-js-with-emscripten/587 http://users.rust-lang.org/t/rust-to-js-with-emscripten/587
haberman 12y ago
Likewise I keep hoping someone will make a compile-Rust-to-portable-C story realistic also! The LLVM C backend has been revived! https://github.com/draperlaboratory/llvm-cbe https://github.com/draperlaboratory/llvm-cbe http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2014-August/075934.html http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2014-August/07593...
- comex 12y ago
  Last October I tried using that repo to compile Rust to C and it proved to be totally broken (i.e. not Rust's fault). There have been a bunch of commits since then, so maybe it works these days... shouldn't be hard to test. However, don't expect it to generate code that's portable between architectures with different pointer widths.
  - haberman 12y ago
    > However, don't expect it to generate code that's portable between architectures with different pointer widths. That's a limitation I can live with. If my only concession is that I have to have two builds (32/64), and everything else is portable, I'll be a very happy camper.
EugeneOZ 12y ago
I was hoping it's about cross-platform compilation.
- steveklabnik 12y ago
  Being based on LLVM, the details are there, but it's not as easy as we'd like. This is something we want to significantly improve the UX of in the future, for sure.
diamondlovesyou 11y ago
Using my fork [1] (you'll have to build it yourself, sorry), you can create Emscripten bins. After building your program, run `$NACL_SDK_ROOT/toolchain/linux_pnacl/bin/pnacl-thaw $RUSTC_OUT` on the output (rustc emits stable pexe's by default) and then run `$EMSCRIPTEN/emcc -o $RUSTC_OUT.html $RUSTC_OUT`. Volia. I make no guarantees that it'll all work however; I don't test Rust->JS like I do Rust->PNaCl. [1]: https://github.com/DiamondLovesYou/rust.git https://github.com/DiamondLovesYou/rust.git EDIT: Grammar.

We need Emscripten to upgrade their LLVM, last I heard. We're running a pretty cutting-edge version at the moment.

People are eagerly working on it: http://users.rust-lang.org/t/rust-to-js-with-emscripten/587 http://users.rust-lang.org/t/rust-to-js-with-emscripten/587

haberman 12y ago

Likewise I keep hoping someone will make a compile-Rust-to-portable-C story realistic also! The LLVM C backend has been revived! https://github.com/draperlaboratory/llvm-cbe https://github.com/draperlaboratory/llvm-cbe http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2014-August/075934.html http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2014-August/07593...

comex 12y ago
Last October I tried using that repo to compile Rust to C and it proved to be totally broken (i.e. not Rust's fault). There have been a bunch of commits since then, so maybe it works these days... shouldn't be hard to test. However, don't expect it to generate code that's portable between architectures with different pointer widths.
- haberman 12y ago
  > However, don't expect it to generate code that's portable between architectures with different pointer widths. That's a limitation I can live with. If my only concession is that I have to have two builds (32/64), and everything else is portable, I'll be a very happy camper.

EugeneOZ 12y ago

I was hoping it's about cross-platform compilation.

steveklabnik 12y ago
Being based on LLVM, the details are there, but it's not as easy as we'd like. This is something we want to significantly improve the UX of in the future, for sure.

diamondlovesyou 11y ago

Using my fork [1] (you'll have to build it yourself, sorry), you can create Emscripten bins. After building your program, run `$NACL_SDK_ROOT/toolchain/linux_pnacl/bin/pnacl-thaw $RUSTC_OUT` on the output (rustc emits stable pexe's by default) and then run `$EMSCRIPTEN/emcc -o $RUSTC_OUT.html $RUSTC_OUT`. Volia. I make no guarantees that it'll all work however; I don't test Rust->JS like I do Rust->PNaCl. [1]: https://github.com/DiamondLovesYou/rust.git https://github.com/DiamondLovesYou/rust.git EDIT: Grammar.