Re: [gnu-soc] GNU GSOC 2023 application

[Samuel Thibault]

Almudena Garcia, le mer. 08 févr. 2023 01:02:46 +0100, a ecrit:
> Where is the original message of this thread?

It's on the summer-of-code list.

Samuel

> El mié, 8 feb 2023 a las 0:40, Samuel Thibault (<[1]samuel.thibault@gnu.org>)
> escribió:
> 
>     Hello Jose,
> 
>     - GNU Hurd
>     - The GNU Hurd is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. It
>       is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to
>       implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and
>       other features that are implemented by the Unix kernel or similar
>       kernels (such as Linux).
>     - [2]https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/
>     - Porting Rust to GNU/Hurd
> 
>     - The goal of this project is to make the Rust language
>     ([3]https://www.rust-lang.org/) available on GNU/Hurd.
> 
>     The Rust language is being used more and more widely, and notably in
>     rather fundamental libraries such as librsvg or python-cryptography. It
>     is thus more and more pressing for GNU/Hurd to have a compiler for Rust.
> 
>     The Rust compiler itself is quite portable, but its runtime library,
>     libstd, needs to be ported to the GNU/Hurd system. This essentially
>     consists in telling Rust how the standard C library functions can be
>     called.
> 
>     And example of the main part of such port can be seen for the VxWorks
>     port:
>     [4]https://github.com/rust-lang/libc/blob/master/src/vxworks/mod.rs
> 
>     The bulk of such a file can be mostly generated from the libc C
>     headers thanks to the bindgen tool, it then needs to be cleaned up and
>     integrated into the Rust build infrastructure, some preliminary work had
>     already been investigated in that part.
> 
>     A cross-bootstrap from Linux will then need to be achieved to build
>     rustc and cargo, and then it will be self-hosted on GNU/Hurd.
> 
>     - A good level of C programming will be welcome to understand the
>     questions of ABI and the libc C functions being bound.
> 
>     Knowing the Rust language is not required: it can be learnt along the
>     way, this can be a good occasion.
> 
>     - [5]bug-hurd@gnu.org
>     - [6]https://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/community/gsoc/project_ideas/
>     rust/
>     [7]https://www.rust-lang.org/
>     
> [8]https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/building/how-to-build-and-run.html
> 
>     Samuel
> 
> 
> 
> References:
> 
> [1] mailto:samuel.thibault@gnu.org
> [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/
> [3] https://www.rust-lang.org/
> [4] https://github.com/rust-lang/libc/blob/master/src/vxworks/mod.rs
> [5] mailto:bug-hurd@gnu.org
> [6] https://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/community/gsoc/project_ideas/rust/
> [7] https://www.rust-lang.org/
> [8] https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/building/how-to-build-and-run.html

-- 
Samuel
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