I love programming in rust. Lots of non-rust developers think the whole point of rust is safety, but honestly, the things I like most about using it are the quality of life features like cargo. I love the idea of bringing that to C!
Relevant to this thread: I've spent the last week or so hand porting SeL4 from C to Rust, mostly so I can learn how it works (and learn OS development more generally). One of the biggest pain points I've had trying to use SeL4 is understanding the insanely complex way it uses cmake to compile the kernel and userland software. With Cargo, I can just run `cargo build` on my rust kernel project and it just works[1]. I don't even have a build.rs.
Anyway, I'd love it if we had a tool that made sel4 so easy to build. I doubt it'll be that simple, but its a lovely goal.
[1] (Well, except for one small step: You need to run objcopy to convert the 64 bit elf into a 32 bit elf to run it in qemu. But other than that!)
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spn_autoconf_t* ac = spn_autoconf_new(dep);
spn_autoconf_add_flag(ac, "--disable-tcl");
spn_autoconf_run(ac);
spn_make(dep);
That being said, I'll have a go at sel4 with the native build system. I use it for all my C projects already. Nothing tastes better than dog food, after all!
It's crazy, and I understand why it's the case, but I know how to fix it and I'd like to have a crack at it.