Can anyone please mentor me on Rust contribution?I can start with documentation...I need a guidance please

[Dankan]

Can anyone please mentor me on Rust contribution?I can start with documentation…I need a guidance please

[taralx]

Welcome! This Week In Rust has a Call for Participation, including easy things that you can do to contribute. The most recent one links to this issue.

Consider offering your help and requesting a mentor on that issue specifically. Looking forward to your contribution.

[Dankan]

@thank you taralx…but when i click the link i see alot of issues.Can you please walk me through…?I have never contributed to open source before

[taralx]

Ah, it looks like someone has already started working on that one, sorry. I suggest subscribing to the This Week In Rust newsletter and keeping an eye out for things that you can do.

[ekuber]

What do you want to work on?

CONTRIBUTING has some documentation on what the process looks like, https://forge.rust-lang.org/ has documentation on how to start hacking on the compiler.

To begin with, once you have cloned the repo, you can just run (depending on your platform) ./x.py build --stage 1, which will build a new rustc from source that will live in build/<PLATFORM>/stage1/bin/rustc.

[tmccombs]

Ah, it looks like someone has already started working on that one, sorry.

I’ve run into that a few times. I’ve had better luck at finding issues that someone isn’t already working on by going to https://www.rustaceans.org/findwork/ since it is generally more up to date, or picking a project that interests me and looking for issues tagged as “Help wanted”, and possibly something like “Easy” or “Beginner”

[FrankSD]

I followed the steps below outlined on rust build page , I install dependencies, cloned the project and build it but i am still getting this error:-

############ERRORS I RECEIVED AFTER BUILD FOLLOWING THE STEPS BELOW###################

Compiling alloc_jemalloc v0.0.0 (file:///C:/Users/Frank/Rust/rust/src/liballoc_jemalloc) error: failed to run custom build command for alloc_jemalloc v0.0.0 (file:///C:/Users/Frank/Rust/rust/src/liballoc_jemalloc) process didn’t exit successfully: C:\Users\Frank\Rust\rust\build\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\stage0-std\release\build\alloc_jemalloc-3b741a8b623d562e\build-script-build (exit code: 1) — stdout

failed to run: C:\Users\Frank\Rust\rust\build\bootstrap\debug\bootstrap build --stage 1 Build completed unsuccessfully in 0:01:32

################STEPS I FOLLOWED#############

MinGW#####

MSYS2 can be used to easily build Rust on Windows:

1. Grab the latest MSYS2 installer and go through the installer.

2. Run mingw32_shell.bat or mingw64_shell.bat from wherever you installed MSYS2 (i.e. C:\msys64 ), depending on whether you want 32-bit or 64-bit Rust. (As of the latest version of MSYS2 you have to run msys2_shell.cmd -mingw32 or msys2_shell.cmd -mingw64 from the command line instead)

3. From this terminal, install the required tools:

Update package mirrors (may be needed if you have a fresh install of MSYS2) pacman -Sy pacman-mirrors # Install build tools needed for Rust. If you're building a 32-bit compiler, # then replace "x86_64" below with "i686". If you've already got git, python, # or CMake installed and in PATH you can remove them from this list. Note # that it is important that you do **not** use the 'python2' and 'cmake' # packages from the 'msys2' subsystem. The build has historically been known # to fail with these packages. pacman -S git \ make \ diffutils \ tar \ mingw-w64-x86_64-python2 \ mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake \ mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc

4. Navigate to Rust’s source code (or clone it), then build it:

$ ./x.py build && ./x.py install

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