Rust on Leopard

Question

I have tried the macport for rust and it failed. How do I compile rust on leopard, if I can run mono ( and mono develop ) and make haxe on leopard then it must be possible to use rust. I have gcc 4.6 so fairly recent compiler setup.

I am interested to try rust and now that the an early haxe-rust port is out even more interested. I can open my pc but to be honest I always end up experimenting on my mac so unless I can install it on this leopard system I doubt I will explore it properly. Any tips on make ing rust appreciated.

And looking at the mailing list it suggests that even if I upgraded I would currently have issues with running rust on a mac.

Answer 1

Unfortunately as far as Leopard support, nobody has stepped up to provide the backporting effort; the mozilla-employed core developers are targeting newer OSX variants at this point, so it's up to volunteers to maintain other variants, best-effort. We only have so much time.