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Prerequisites

Dependencies

Before building the compiler, you need the following things installed:

  • python 3 or 2.7 (under the name python; python2 or python3 will not work)
  • curl
  • git
  • ssl which comes in libssl-dev or openssl-devel
  • pkg-config if you are compiling on Linux and targeting Linux

If building LLVM from source (the default), you'll need additional tools:

  • g++ 5.1 or later, clang++ 3.5 or later, or MSVC 2017 or later.
  • ninja, or GNU make 3.81 or later (ninja is recommended, especially on Windows)
  • cmake 3.4.3 or later

Otherwise, you'll need LLVM installed and llvm-config in your path. See this section for more info.

Windows

For more information about building on Windows, see the Rust README.

Hardware

These are not so much requirements as recommendations:

  • ~15GB of free disk space (~25GB or more if doing incremental builds).
  • >= 8GB RAM
  • >= 4 cores
  • Internet access

Beefier machines will lead to much faster builds. If your machine is not very powerful, a common strategy is to only use ./x.py check on your local machine and let the CI build test your changes when you push to a PR branch.

rustc and toolchain installation

Follow the installation given in the Rust book to install a working rustc and the necessary C/++ toolchain on your platform.

Platform specific instructions

Windows

Run the following in a terminal:

winget install python
winget install cmake

If any of those is installed already, winget will detect it.

Edit your systems PATH variable and add: C:\Program Files\CMake\bin.