starktech23/mrustc

Alternative rust compiler (re-implementation)

Mutabah's Rust Compiler

In-progress alternative rust compiler. Not yet suitable for everyday use.

Intro

This project is an attempt at creating a simple rust compiler in C++, with the ultimate goal of being a separate re-implementation.

The short-term goal is to compile pre-borrowchecked rust code into some intermediate form (e.g. LLVM IR, x86-64 assembly, or C code). Thankfully, (from what I have seen), the borrow checker is not needed to compile rust code (just to ensure that it's valid)

Getting Started

Linux

• make RUSTCSRC - Downloads the rustc source tarball
• make -f minicargo.mk - Builds mrustc and minicargo, then builds libstd, libtest, finally rustc

Windows

(NOTE: Incomplete, doesn't yet compile executables and missing helper scripts)

• Download and extract rustc-1.19.0-src.tar.gz to the repository root (such that the rustc-1.19.0-src directory is present)
  • NOTE: I am open to suggestions for how to automate that step
• Open vsproject/mrustc.sln and build minicargo

Building Requirements

• C++14-compatible compiler (tested with gcc 5.4 and gcc 6)
• C11 compatible C compiler (for output, see above)
• curl (for downloading the rust source, linux only)
• cmake (at least 3.4.3, required for building llvm in rustc)

Current Features

• Full compilation chain including HIR and MIR stages (outputting to C)
• Supports just x86-64 linux
• MIR optimisations
• Optionally-enablable exhaustive MIR validation (set the MRUSTC_FULL_VALIDATE environment variable)
• Functional cargo clone (minicargo)

Short-Term Plans

• Fix currently-failing tests (mostly in type inferrence)
• Fix all known TODOs in MIR generation (still some possible leaks)
• Fix compilation errors encountered when compiling cargo

Medium-Term Goals

• Propagate lifetime annotations so that MIR can include a borrow checker

Progress

• Compiles static libraries into loadable HIR tree and MIR code
• Generates working executables (most of the test suite)
• Compiles rustc that can compile the standard library and "hello, world"

Note: All progress is against the source of rustc 1.19.0