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Valerii Hiora edited this page Jun 17, 2014 · 102 revisions

Rust on iOS

You need XCode 5.

Build Rust cross-compiler:

mkdir build_ios; cd build_ios
../configure --target=arm-apple-ios,i386-apple-ios
make VERBOSE=1

Once compilation complete you can use it.

To target device:

rustc --target=arm-apple-ios foo.rs

To target simulator:

rustc --target=i386-apple-ios foo.rs

What you get

all Rust superpowers
exception handling
LLDB debugging
green tasks

Known limitations

works only for armv7 architecture, armv7s and arm64 will be added soon.
segmented stack is disabled that means no stack protection available

Resources

Sample of using Rust from Objective C + Makefile for simulateous compiling for both device and simulator