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Message-ID: <20210321205619.GB28813@duo.ucw.cz>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 21:56:19 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>,
rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org,
kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Getting Rust to work
Hi!
> > First try was on x86-32. It took me a whlie to figure out the problem,
> > hence the diff below.
>
> Thanks a lot for trying it out and for the feedback! :-)
Thanks for your work :-).
> The supported architectures are in
> Documentation/rust/arch-support.rst, so we should link to that.
>
> x86 32-bit and other architectures should eventually work -- we need
> to put some time into them and setting up a few things. For the moment
> we focused on x86_64 and arm64.
Actually x86-32 would be useful for me. That's my test machine.
> > Then I got failure because libclang (?) was not installed. I installed
> > it. But I guess that should be mentioned in docs as dependency.
>
> Yeah, this is mentioned on the bindgen section in quick-start.rst, I
> will try to improve make it more clear, perhaps I'll a section for
> libclang itself.
Aha, sorry, it is possible I was not careful enough reading the docs.
> > With CONFIG_RUST unset, kernel builds for me. With CONFIG_RUST=y +
> > RUST_EXAMPLE=y... I get errors:
>
> Typically it is due to a kernel option that enables some GCC flag that
> libclang does not know about -- I have a hack in place to make it
> work, but requires manual maintenance. Can you please attach your
> kernel config?
Done, in a private message.
> Meanwhile, please try building with Clang or LLVM instead, the GCC
> builds are very, very experimental. I'll make it even more explicit in
> the quick-start.
I tried, but newest in my distribution is clang-7, and kernel needs
clang-10.
Best regards,
Pavel
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