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Sebastian Dröge 🍵

Over the Easter holidays I experimented a bit with building Rust code with meson instead of cargo.

Specifically I tried building a GStreamer plugin with a few dozen Rust dependencies, but the same applies in a similar way to GTK/GNOME applications or literally anything else.

A write-up of the results with a lot of details can be found here: coaxion.net/blog/2023/04/build

19 Apr 2023 at 14:39 | Open on toot.cat
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matze :unarist:

@slomo mesa's rusticl is doing this for quite some time now. There I also found the rust-project.json thing a bit … annyoing.

19 Apr 2023 at 14:57 | Open on mastodon.social
Sebastian Dröge 🍵

@matze It's not using any external Rust dependencies though as that complicates everything a lot. That was the main part that I was interested in here. How much effort that is, what problems there are, and if we can really fully automate that (yes).

Building standalone Rust code is easily possible with meson since 2015 or so 🙂​ See also that Python module I linked to, which is built from C, C++, Fortran and Rust code and was last touched in 2017.

19 Apr 2023 at 15:04 | Open on toot.cat
Sebastian Dröge 🍵

@matze OOC, why was rust-project.json annoying for you?

19 Apr 2023 at 15:05 | Open on toot.cat
matze :unarist:

@slomo AFAIR the referenced paths where relative to the build directory or something similar and RA did not find the file if it is not in the root. So there was some manual required that had to be repeated once I re-ran meson.

19 Apr 2023 at 20:47 | Open on mastodon.social
Sebastian Dröge 🍵

@matze Ah yes, I fixed that in meson a while ago so it puts absolute paths in there. Before that it was kind of useless for me too 😅​

github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pu

19 Apr 2023 at 21:14 | Open on toot.cat
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