Re: Compiling rust things without cargo (super WIP POC)

[Hartmut Goebel]

Am 31.03.22 um 22:06 schrieb Maxime Devos:
> In my experiments, it looks like the rust compiler actually_does_
> support static libraries, though perhaps cargo doesn't.

AFAIU this assumption is correct.


> I invite you to take a look 
> at<https://notabug.org/maximed/cargoless-rust-experiments>.
> It contains a minimal rust library (libhello) and a minimal 'hello
> world'-style application that uses 'libhello'.
Impressive!
> As a next step, maybe I could try writing a Guix package definition for libhello
> and hello-oxygen, gradually making things more complicated (macros, transitive
> dependencies, some non-toy Rust dependencies, a Guix build system ...)?

Here is my challenge :-) 
<https://gitlab.com/sequoia-pgp/sequoia/-/blob/main/openpgp/Cargo.toml>: 
different dependencies per feature, os, target-arch and target-os as 
well as passing on features to dependencies.

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Hartmut Goebel

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