Mrustc: a Rust compiler written in C++

Re:Mrustc: a Rust compiler written in C++ by steveklabnik on Thursday September 21, 2017 @08:11PM (#15308373)

Usually you port by cross compiling an initial compiler, and bootstrapping from there.

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Re:Mrustc: a Rust compiler written in C++ by binarycrusader on Friday September 22, 2017 @12:00AM (#15309303)

Speaking from personal experience, that can be quite painful. Being able to build rust and cargo, even if only for bootstrapping when porting, would truly be a wondrous thing.

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Re:Mrustc: a Rust compiler written in C++ by fmap on Friday September 22, 2017 @04:30AM (#15310305)

Why, we could always use emscripten to compile rustc to JavaScript and use that for bootstrapping!

On a more serious note, ghc at least solved this problem by allowing you to compile Haskell to C (-fvia-C). Writing a naive C code generator from whatever your backend is using is probably not that hard.

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Re:Mrustc: a Rust compiler written in C++ by mitchty on Friday September 22, 2017 @07:50AM (#15311268)

I actually did steveklabnik said porting ghc to alpine linux. Lets just say, ghc's cross compilation can be frustrating.

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Re:Mrustc: a Rust compiler written in C++ by mitchty on Friday September 22, 2017 @09:55AM (#15312169)

Forgot a what in there, just woke up me can not english.

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Re:Mrustc: a Rust compiler written in C++ by pjmlp on Friday September 22, 2017 @09:07AM (#15311789)

Or by making use of an interpreter as first stage.

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