Rust Unlinked: Understanding Rustc, Symbols, and Static Libraries
Save Big on Coursera Plus. 7,000+ courses at $160 off. Limited Time Only! Grab it Explore the intricacies of Rust compilation, linking, and symbol management in this comprehensive conference talk from Conf42 Rustlang 2024. Delve into the compilation phases of Rust, including lexing, parsing, and code analysis. Examine intermediate representations, optimizations, and the LLVM code generation process. Gain insights into Rust's query-based compilation model and understand object files and object code. Follow along with practical experiments in Rust, exploring symbol mangling, compiling and linking object files, and using utilities like nm for symbol table analysis. Investigate the ELF file format, learn about manual linking with the ld linker, and discover how to handle linking errors. Explore the use of static libraries in Rust and the generation of LLVM IR. Conclude with valuable references for further study in Rust development and compilation processes.