This is a tool that uses rustc's internal libraries to parse and analyze crate and then output information about it in a format that kdev-rust can easily turn into internal KDevelop representation.
This tool's linking to rustc libraries is hackish and is only temporary solution. In future this tool will be replaced with Rust Language Server.
- This is early experminent.
- I am new to Rust.
- Rustc internal libraries are unstable and are not meant to be used by external tools. This tool may stop buildling any time you update your rust compiler.
You need to have working cargo and nightly rustc installation.
Warning: You must rebuild rustc2duchain every time you update your rust compiler!
Build rustc2duchain like any other binary crate:
git clone https://github.com/michalsrb/rustc2duchain.git
cd rustc2duchain
cargo build --release
This will build the rustc2duchain binary and place it at ./target/release/rustc2duchain path relative to the repository. You can keep it in there and configure the kdev-rust plugin to use it from there. In that case you will also need to set path to the rustc libraries in your kdev-rust configuration.
Alternatively, if you use rustup, you can copy rustc2duchain in the appropriate bin directory of nightly toolchain. For example like this:
cp ./target/release/rustc2duchain $HOME/.multirust/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin
In that case kdev-rust will locate rustc2duchain automatically and should work out of the box.
This tool is meant to be used with the kdev-rust KDevelop plugin. See its README for details.
You can also test it by running it manually:
rustup run nightly rustc2duchain --debug </path/to/some/crate/main.rs>