1 # Work in progress cranelift codegen backend for rust
3 > ⚠⚠⚠ This doesn't do much useful yet ⚠⚠⚠
8 $ git clone https://github.com/bjorn3/rustc_codegen_cranelift.git
9 $ cd rustc_codegen_cranelift
10 $ rustup override set nightly # This uses unstable api's which will never be stabilized
11 $ cargo install xargo # Used for building the sysroot
12 $ cargo install hyperfine # Used for benchmarking in build.sh
19 $ rustc -Zcodegen-backend=$(pwd)/target/debug/librustc_codegen_cranelift.so my_crate.rs
22 ## Build sysroot and test
25 $ rustup component add rust-src # Make sure the sysroot source is availablr
26 $ ./prepare_libcore.sh # Patch the sysroot source for some not yet supported things
32 * Good non-rust abi support ([non scalars are not yet supported for the "C" abi](https://github.com/bjorn3/rustc_codegen_cranelift/issues/10))
33 * Checked binops ([some missing instructions in cranelift](https://github.com/CraneStation/cranelift/issues/460))
34 * Inline assembly ([no cranelift support](https://github.com/CraneStation/cranelift/issues/444))
35 * Varargs ([no cranelift support](https://github.com/CraneStation/cranelift/issues/212))
36 * libstd (needs varargs and some other stuff) ([tracked here](https://github.com/bjorn3/rustc_codegen_cranelift/issues/146))
37 * u128 and i128 ([no cranelift support](https://github.com/CraneStation/cranelift/issues/354))
38 * SIMD (huge amount of work to get all intrinsics implemented, so may never be supported)