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## Installation
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- On win32, we make an executable [ installer] [ ] available. On other
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- platforms you need to build from a [ tarball] [ ] .
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- If you're on windows, download and run the installer. It should install
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- a self-contained set of tools and libraries to ` C:\Program Files\Rust ` ,
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- and add ` C:\Program Files\Rust\bin ` to your ` PATH ` environment variable.
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- You should then be able to run the rust compiler as ` rustc ` directly
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- from the command line.
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- On Windows Rust additionally requires [ MinGW] [ mingw ] (version
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- 20110802 is known to work). It is currently recommended that windows
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- development be done under the MinGW shell to ensure that the
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- environment is configured correctly.
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- We hope to be distributing binary packages for various other operating
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- systems at some point in the future, but at the moment only windows
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- binary installers are being made. Other operating systems must build
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- from "source".
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+ The Rust compiler currently must be built from a [ tarball] [ ] . We hope
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+ to be distributing binary packages for various operating systems in
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+ the future.
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*** Note:*** The Rust compiler is slightly unusual in that it is written
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in Rust and therefore must be built by a precompiled "snapshot" version
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* gnu make 3.81 or later
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* curl
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+ On Windows Rust requires [ MinGW] [ mingw ] (version 20110802 is known to
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+ work). It is currently recommended that windows development be done
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+ under the MinGW shell to ensure that the environment is configured
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+ correctly.
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Assuming you're on a relatively modern Linux system and have met the
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prerequisites, something along these lines should work:
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to ` configure ` . Various other options are also supported, pass ` --help `
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for more information on them.
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- [ installer ] : http://dl.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-0.1-install.exe
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[ tarball ] : http://dl.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-0.1.tar.gz
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[ mingw ] : http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/mingw-get-inst/mingw-get-inst-20110802/mingw-get-inst-20110802.exe/download
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