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Since the Rust compiler is written in Rust, it must be built by
a precompiled "snapshot" version of itself (made in an earlier state
of development). As such, source builds require a connection to
the Internet, to fetch snapshots, and an OS that can execute the
available snapshot binaries.
of development). The source build automatically fetches these snapshots
from the Internet on our supported platforms.

Snapshot binaries are currently built and tested on several platforms:

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