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This installation guide assumes you have run the following installs beforehand.

Install

umake rust

Ensure that you logout and login

Commands

The following commands should now be available

cargo
rustc
rustdoc
rust-gdb

Creating a project

cargo new $PROJECT --bin

Or for a library

cargo new $PROJECT --lib

Compiling and running

Debug

cargo build
cargo run

Release

cargo build --release
cargo run --release

Manually

rustc main.rs

Atom integration

This assumes that Atom is already installed

language-rust

Install the following package in atom

language-rust

Racer

Install racer within rust

cargo install racer

Download the source of rust from https://www.rust-lang.org/install.html

Install the following package in atom

racer

Set the path to racer bin to the following

$HOME/.cargo/bin/racer

Set the rust src path to the following

$HOME/.rustsrc/*/src

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