On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 10:00:45PM -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 9/4/25 7:39 PM, Ezekiel Newren wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> wrote: > >> Implement a trivial test balloon for our Rust build infrastructure by > >> reimplementing the "varint.c" subsystem in Rust. This subsystem is > >> chosen because it is trivial to convert and because it doesn't have any > >> dependencies to other components of Git. > > > > Huh, I thought Meson couldn't run Rust tests. It's refreshing to see > > someone else try a different approach on bringing Rust to Git. > > > > There are a few reasons why I picked Cargo instead of Meson to build Rust: > > 1. Needs to work with make. > > > If the rust code is defined as a crate, meson can auto-import that crate > via parsing Cargo.toml, so perhaps this can simply be done by creating a > > [lib] > crate-type = 'cdylib' > > and... importing it as a meson subproject. You'd be able to build it > with cargo build, if you really want to (and the Makefile may have to) > but Meson would not be limited to this. That sounds like a sensible thing to do. Just to clarify, this doesn't need the experimental Cargo wraps, right? Is there any documentation for how to set this up? Patrick
