## Quick Start
-### Windows
-
-1. Download and use the [installer and MinGW][win-wiki].
+1. Download a [binary installer][installer] for your platform.
2. Read the [tutorial].
-2. Enjoy!
+3. Enjoy!
> ***Note:*** Windows users can read the detailed
> [getting started][wiki-start] notes on the wiki.
+[installer]: http://www.rust-lang.org/install.html
[tutorial]: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/tutorial.html
[wiki-start]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Note-getting-started-developing-Rust
[win-wiki]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Using-Rust-on-Windows
-### Linux / OS X
+## Building from Source
1. Make sure you have installed the dependencies:
* `g++` 4.4 or `clang++` 3.x
* `perl` 5.0 or later
* GNU `make` 3.81 or later
* `curl`
+ * `git`
2. Download and build Rust:
You can either download a [tarball] or build directly from the [repo].
To build from the [tarball] do:
- $ curl -O http://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-0.9.tar.gz
- $ tar -xzf rust-0.9.tar.gz
- $ cd rust-0.9
+ $ curl -O http://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-nightly.tar.gz
+ $ tar -xzf rust-nightly.tar.gz
+ $ cd rust-nightly
Or to build from the [repo] do:
> options are also supported, pass `--help` for more information on them.
When complete, `make install` will place several programs into
- `/usr/local/bin`: `rustc`, the Rust compiler; `rustdoc`, the
- API-documentation tool, and `rustpkg`, the Rust package manager and build
+ `/usr/local/bin`: `rustc`, the Rust compiler, and `rustdoc`, the
+ API-documentation tool.
system.
3. Read the [tutorial].
4. Enjoy!
[repo]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust
-[tarball]: http://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-0.9.tar.gz
-[tutorial]: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/0.9/tutorial.html
+[tarball]: http://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-nightly.tar.gz
+[tutorial]: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/tutorial.html
## Notes
Snapshot binaries are currently built and tested on several platforms:
* Windows (7, 8, Server 2008 R2), x86 only
-* Linux (various distributions), x86 and x86-64
+* Linux (2.6.18 or later, various distributions), x86 and x86-64
* OSX 10.7 (Lion) or greater, x86 and x86-64
You may find that other platforms work, but these are our officially