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Building Rust projects with a custom profile
August 27 2024 by Benjamin Lamowski

Starting with Rust 1.77, our Rust Goa projects were giving us trouble. My colleague Sebastian was quick to figure out and fix the initial runtime linking problem. However, with that out of the way, the applications would simply crash with a segfault. Continue...
A first complex Rust package
October 26 2023 by Benjamin Lamowski

With the release of depot packages for Sculpt OS 23.10, we finally have all building blocks in place to build and run a Rust package without needing to locally build its Genode dependencies. Continue...
Enabling the upstream Rust toolchain
August 24 2023 by Benjamin Lamowski

Release 23.05 reintroduced support for the Rust programming language to Genode, but our initial implementation relied on a slightly adapted Rust toolchain. As detailed in my previous blog post, we were working around issues with versioned FreeBSD libc symbols that were unsupported by our linker. Continue...
Bringing Rust back to Genode
May 30 2023 by Benjamin Lamowski

Initial support for the Rust programming language was contributed to Genode release 16.05 by Waylon Cude, but it failed to get traction and was removed again with release 20.05. With the 23.05 release, we bring back Rust support from a different angle. Continue...

Building Rust projects with a custom profile