Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp

Re:Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp by mwcampbell on Thursday June 25, 2015 @02:54PM (#9780126)

What exactly does MSVC support entail? For example, will one be able to debug Rust programs with WinDbg or the Visual Studio debugger? IIUC, that would require LLVM to output PDB files.

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Re:Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp by alexcrichton on Thursday June 25, 2015 @04:38PM (#9780753)

In addition to not interacting with the GNU toolchain at all (through MinGW), MSVC support will indeed enable native Windows debug info (as you mentioned) so native tools can be used to debug Rust code. Note that this isn't 100% implemented yet, but it's coming soon! Additionally you'll get interoperation with MSVC-compiled libraries. Libraries compiled with MinGW don't interoperate well with MSVC (and vice versa), so this enables Rust code to link against an MSVC-compiled native library.

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Re:Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp by kibwen on Thursday June 25, 2015 @05:43PM (#9781100)

(HN readers, note that alexcrichton is the one spearheading the MSVC effort.)

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Re:Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp by jnbiche on Friday June 26, 2015 @12:26AM (#9782492)

Will MinGW still be supported, or will that be dropped?

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Re:Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp by steveklabnik on Friday June 26, 2015 @12:05PM (#9785553)

There's no plan to drop it.

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Re:Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp by steveklabnik on Thursday June 25, 2015 @03:00PM (#9780159)

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/25350 was the PR with the initial support.

    > The tl;dr; of this change is that there is a new target of the compiler,
    > x86_64-pc-windows-msvc, which will not interact with the MinGW toolchain at
    > all and will instead use link.exe to assemble output artifacts.

We're very interested in improving support so that you can use VS's features fully. These are just first steps.

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Re:Rust 1.1 Stable, the Community Subteam, and RustCamp by brson on Thursday June 25, 2015 @03:00PM (#9780167)

MSVC support primarily means that Rust programs link with the MSVC toolchain, and use structured exception handling for unwinding. There are no GNU components involved and no need to install MinGW.

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