[SOLVED] Can't build/link with gcc on FreeBSD

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Cargo/Build scripts tend to build/link with (lowercase) cc. On FreeBSD this is hard linked to clang.
No matter how I set CC, CXX, and so on, cc always = clang.

Some crates require to be built with gcc. How can I set this?

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Anything compiled using gcc-rs should respect CC, CFLAGS etc: https://github.com/alexcrichton/gcc-rs#external-configuration-via-environment-variables. If things are shelling out to cc manually you'd have to file issue with those projects.

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Servo is one example that won't build. Many of the dependency crates won't build because of some gcc-only functions expected in 'cc'.

Output:

error: linking with 'cc' failed: exit code: 1
...
/usr/lib/libgcc_s.so: error: undefined reference .......

Replacing cc with gcc and running the printed command string manually works. I don't think this is in the specific crates but rather Cargo that links using 'cc'.

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The standard linker is indeed cc, but you can use an environment variable to change it: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/b14785d/src/librustc_back/target/mod.rs#L406

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That environment variable is checked at rustc build time, by the way. If you already have a rustc, you can use cargo's configuration to change the linker: Page Moved

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Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

I got it building by adding linker = gcc to .cargo/config

To get the default (clang) to find libraries properly, I needed to add "-L/usr/local/lib" to rustflags in [target.x86_64-unknown-freebsd] section.

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