| 31 Jul 2025 |
 Alyssa Ross | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
do we use the rustc wrapper when building with Cargo? Yes | 19:36:20 |
 emily | answer: yes | 19:36:27 |
| emily | sorry in advance Alyssa | 19:36:33 |
 dramforever | but cargo expects target.mips64el_loongson2f-unknown-linux-gnuabi64.linker | 19:37:43 |
| emily | rustc and Cargo diverge weirdly more than you'd expect | 19:38:28 |
| Alyssa Ross | That's why we have all those platform attrs! | 19:39:52 |
| dramforever | right, so my understanding is correct | 19:42:55 |
| dramforever | and it is further evidence that rustcTarget is just not a thing | 19:46:05 |
| emily | well, it does say rustc, not Cargo :) | 19:48:30 |
| dramforever | last time i talked about this with alyssa we had a very heated ... not really argument, more of a hair pulling session | 19:55:16 |
| dramforever | where basically i'm still convinced that there is no reason to ever use rustcTarget | 19:55:31 |
| Alyssa Ross | You could be right | 19:58:25 |
| Alyssa Ross | I was trying during that conversation to convince myself there was a reason for it to exist and I basically couldn't | 19:58:50 |
| Alyssa Ross | But I also couldn't convince myself there wasn't one | 19:59:04 |
| 1 Aug 2025 |
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| dramforever | rustcTarget madness is the only thing between me and a cross'd mips3 nixos rn | 11:12:14 |
| emily | wait Rust does MIPS now? | 11:37:48 |
| emily | I remember we had to figure out if that was a problem when switching to stc-ng | 11:38:02 |
| dramforever | mips64el is close but it's mips64r2 | 11:53:08 |
| dramforever | mips3 has less instructions but is the same abi | 11:53:21 |
| dramforever | hence, me banging my head to get rustc to use a target json | 11:53:34 |
| dramforever | properly | 11:53:51 |
| dramforever | in case you are wondering yes the whole point of getting rust working is stc-ng | 11:56:05 |
| Alyssa Ross | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
wait Rust does MIPS now? It was demoted due to lack of maintenance, but has always been there | 11:57:54 |
| emily | oh, we just can't native build it? | 11:58:12 |
| Alyssa Ross | They stopped making bootstrap tarballs | 11:58:47 |
| Alyssa Ross | Because they didn't work | 11:58:50 |
| emily | right | 11:58:58 |
| emily | always a good sign | 11:59:03 |
