Rust on FreeBSD

We take care of Rust and Rust-related ports in the FreeBSD Ports Collection.

• lang/rust is tracking Rust Stable and is updated every 6 weeks. It uses the bootstraps we create with lang/rust-bootstrap.
• lang/rust-nightly is tracking Rust Nightly and is updated every week. It uses the prebuilt bootstraps provided by upstream. As such it is currently limited to amd64 and i386.
• lang/rust-bootstrap creates cross-compiled bootstraps for all supported architecture which are later used to build lang/rust.
• Cargo integration is available in the ports framework via USES=cargo

We currently maintain lang/rust for the following architecture and release combinations:

• aarch64: 12.1+ (< 12.1 not supported due to a bug in rtld)
• amd64: 11.4+
• armv6: 11.4+
• armv7: 12.1+
• i386: 11.4+
• powerpc64 ELFv1: 12.1 (13.0 will use the new ELFv2 ABI)
• powerpc64 Big Endian ELFv2: 13.0+
• powerpc64 Little Endian ELFv2: 13.0+

• Rust Programming Language website
• Open Rust issues
• Ports using lang/rust
• Porter's Handbook chapter on how to port Cargo based applications

rust@FreeBSD.org

Bugs and feature requests should be submitted via https://bugs.freebsd.org.

Patches via Phabricator (invite #rust as reviewers).

• TobiasKortkamp
• MikaelUrankar

• WillAndrews
• JeanSébastienPédron
• ThomasZander