Clarifications on Rust's Relationship to Libc
Preface I'm hoping this thread will be a useful resource for others (and myself) in clearing up what the libc dependency is, is not, and what is entailed by it. Efforts to answer this myself are...
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You should really look into the Redox-OS project (full OS, kernel and all, written in Rust). They have had to answer all of these questions and probably are the most knowledgeable (outside the...
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I don't know a ton about porting rustc/LLVM to new platforms, so I hope someone more knowledgeable will answer those questions. I can try to answer some of the other ones, though: jeff-hykin: Can...
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Rust, the language, doesn't depend on libc. There are no-std targets. There are also targets like WASM/WASI which don't use libc in any way. If you were porting Rust's libstd to a new platform you...
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On all major OSes outside of Linux you have to use libc or its analog, since it's the only stable way for a program to talk with OS. You can compile Rust programs for Linux which do not link libc...
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newpavlov: outside of Linux you have to use libc or its analog, since it's the only stable way for a program to talk with OS Important to note that this limitation is imposed by the OS not providing...
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Thank you all so much for these awesome answers. I think together they cover 95% (only two minor questions at the bottom). I'll try to confirm/summarize here to make sure I'm unstanding correctly. In...
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Also, if anyone is reading this, but doesn't understand these answers, do ask follow up questions. I think I understand the system well enough now to answer them myself Read full topic
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jeff-hykin: very similar to the case of targeting WASM/WASI that @kornel mentioned Note that his statement about WASI is not entirely correct. Unfortunately (to me) the WASI target is also dependent...
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Thanks for mentioning this and the link. That is surpising. I'll continue the discussion on WASM over there after reading more about it Read full topic
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