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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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[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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