Local installation
Goals
To do the practicals on your local system, you are going to need the following things:
- A basic software build toolchain including a libc development package and a linker.
- A Rust installation based on the official
rustupinstaller.1 - The HDF5 and hwloc libraries.
- An implementation of the
pkg-configcommand. This does not have to be the original implementation,pkgconfon Unices andpkgconfigliteon Windows work fine too.
Other tools which are not absolutely necessary but will prove convenient include…
- A code editor with at least Rust syntax highlighting, and preferably TOML
syntax highlighting and support for the
rust-analyzerlanguage server too.- See the index of the “Installation”
section of the
rust-analyzermanual for a fairly comprehensive list of supported editors and language server setup steps for each.
- See the index of the “Installation”
section of the
- A POSIX shell and the
lscpu,unzipandwgetcommand-line utilities. These will allow you to run the few non-Cargo commands featured in this course to automate some tasks.
The remainder of this chapter will guide you towards installing and setting up these dependencies, except for the code editor which we will treat as a personal choice and leave you in charge of.
1
Third-party cargo and rustc packages from Linux distributions,
Homebrew and friends cannot be used during this course because we are
going to need a nightly version of the compiler in order to demonstrate an
important upcoming language feature pertaining to SIMD computations.
OS-specific steps
Please pick your operating system for setup instructions: