Adding a new target

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I've started work on adding a new target to rustc. I have gotten it to the point where I have a working stage 1 compiler. Using this rustc, I can create a simple #[no_core] staticlib and it looks great under disassembly. I'm cross compiling because it's more convenient than running stuff on the target. Also since the target's not yet supported, I figure cross compiling is my only hope.

When I try to build the whole shebang using rustbuild / x.py, it fails at "Building stage1 std artifacts". Unfortunately it doesn't offer much detail about the failure beyond "error: Could not compile 'core'". The "process didn't exit successfully" line indicates that it used stage 0 to build core. Without detailed logs I'll guess that the problem must be that my target's not supported by the stage 0 rustc so it must be giving up. BTW I did use "--verbose" but it still didn't offer any detail here.

If the stage 0 rustc supports everything under the sun then maybe this cross-compile bootstrap need is an uncommon one.

I've tried using the now-legacy ./configure / make build but it failed before the stage1 compiler was produced. I can go back to digging into why this fails if it's the more promising route.

Does anyone have any suggestions about how to get past these issues?

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First, yes, you should cross compile first to add a new target.

core is pretty demanding, and it's perfectly possible to be able to compile no_core libraries but not core. I don't think it's stage0 problem... Try running x.py with -v option for verbose output?

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Unfortunately I'm already using --verbose and it's not clear what went wrong.

Here's an excerpt:

+ ./x.py build --config hex.toml --stage 1 --verbose
    Finished debug [unoptimized] target(s) in 0.0 secs
finding compilers
CC_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu = "cc"
AR_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu = "ar"
CC_mynewtarget-unknown-linux-musl = "mynewtarget-linux-clang"
AR_mynewtarget-unknown-linux-musl = "ar"
CXX_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu = "c++"
running sanity check
collecting channel variables

...

Building stage1 test artifacts (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu -> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
running: "/local/mnt/workspace/rust/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0/bin/cargo" "build" "-j" "8" "--target" "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" "-v" "--release" "--manifest-path" "/local/mnt/workspace/rust/rust/src/rustc/test_shim/Cargo.toml"
       Fresh term v0.0.0 (file:///local/mnt/workspace/rust/rust/src/libterm)
       Fresh getopts v0.0.0 (file:///local/mnt/workspace/rust/rust/src/libgetopts)
       Fresh test v0.0.0 (file:///local/mnt/workspace/rust/rust/src/libtest)
       Fresh test_shim v0.1.0 (file:///local/mnt/workspace/rust/rust/src/rustc/test_shim)
    Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 0.0 secs
executing step Step { name: "build-crate-std_shim", stage: 1, host: "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu", target: "mynewtarget-unknown-linux-musl" }
Building stage1 std artifacts (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu -> mynewtarget-unknown-linux-musl)
running: "/local/mnt/workspace/rust/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0/bin/cargo" "build" "-j" "8" "--target" "mynewtarget-unknown-linux-musl" "-v" "--release" "--features" "panic-unwind backtrace" "--manifest-path" "/local/mnt/workspace/rust/rust/src/rustc/std_shim/Cargo.toml"
   Compiling core v0.0.0 (file:///local/mnt/workspace/rust/rust/src/libcore)
       Fresh gcc v0.3.38
       Fresh build_helper v0.1.0 (file:///local/mnt/workspace/rust/rust/src/build_helper)
     Running `/local/mnt/workspace/rust/rust/build/bootstrap/debug/rustc src/libcore/lib.rs --crate-name core --crate-type lib -C opt-level=2 -C metadata=1904068360b1afd2 -C extra-filename=-1904068360b1afd2 --out-dir /local/mnt/workspace/rust/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1-std/mynewtarget-unknown-linux-musl/release/deps --emit=dep-info,link --target mynewtarget-unknown-linux-musl -L dependency=/local/mnt/workspace/rust/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1-std/mynewtarget-unknown-linux-musl/release/deps -C codegen-units=8`
error: Could not compile `core`.

Caused by:
  process didn't exit successfully: `/local/mnt/workspace/rust/rust/build/bootstrap/debug/rustc src/libcore/lib.rs --crate-name core --crate-type lib -C opt-level=2 -C metadata=1904068360b1afd2 -C extra-filename=-1904068360b1afd2 --out-dir /local/mnt/workspace/rust/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1-std/mynewtarget-unknown-linux-musl/release/deps --emit=dep-info,link --target mynewtarget-unknown-linux-musl -L dependency=/local/mnt/workspace/rust/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1-std/mynewtarget-unknown-linux-musl/release/deps -C codegen-units=8` (exit code: 1)


command did not execute successfully: "/local/mnt/workspace/rust/rust/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0/bin/cargo" "build" "-j" "8" "--target" "mynewtarget-unknown-linux-musl" "-v" "--release" "--features" "panic-unwind backtrace" "--manifest-path" "/local/mnt/workspace/rust/rust/src/rustc/std_shim/Cargo.toml"
expected success, got: exit code: 101

I guess I can try to strace it to get some hints about what went wrong. There's bound to be helpful output written by rustc or the linker but it's just been redirected. I just hoped there'd be something obvious about what I was doing that was in error.

I don't expect build/bootstrap/debug/rustc to be able to support --target mynewtarget-unknown-linux-musl though so I'm suspecting that when I dig further I'll find an error message regarding the unsupported target.

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Hii, If you were able to resolve this, can you please provide the steps to follow. I'm stuck at the same point.