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

[Maxime Devos]

Ludovic Courtès schreef op vr 01-04-2022 om 11:10 [+0200]:
> I guess the whole question is whether that technique can be made to work
> for the vast majority of Rust packages.  I’d suggest working in that
> direction: writing a build system as a first step, using it in all the
> Rust packages, and analyzing the kinds of problems encountered, with the
> goal of estimating the effort it would take to make it work for every
> single package.  Easier said than done, I guess.

Do you know a ‘real’ Rust applications with few transitive dependencies
(say, 3 or so) with preferably few rust source files?  That would be a
practical target for the ad-hoc Makefile and eventually, the new
antioxidant-build-system.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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