Re: packaging rust
Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-apps <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2025, Jeremy Drake wrote: > In https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/5568 it seems that rust > 1.89.0 is capable of being built (I had been building rust nightly > snapshots, but haven't been keeping track of their release process). > > I am neither a Rust person nor a Cygwin packaging person, but now that > llvm 20.1 is packaged it should be possible for someone to package rust > for Cygwin, and then it might be possbile to use it to do things like > build newer fish versions for Cygwin. > > If any Cygwin packager out there is excited to take this on, you can look > at > https://github.com/jeremyd2019/cygwin-rust-bootstrap/blob/rust-1.89/.github/workflows/bootstrap_rust.yml > for the workflow I have to cross-build a rust toolchain from windows-gnu > to pc-cygwin and then use that to build a pc-cygwin toolchain natively. > I'd be happy to collaborate to get a cygport going, but this is really not > my thing so I can't commit to be a maintainer of it going forward ;) > (that's why this is not an ITP). I hacked together a braindead cygport, https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?id=10311, https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/playground/tree/rust.cygport?id=822c6102d6240791c455880093cd2fe2825f1e3f, https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/17418588450