Rust Installation

In this section you will learn how to install Rust on Windows as well as Linux/Mac.

Installing Rust on Windows

Setup will consist of 3 steps for installation and 3 steps for verification

Install Visual studio Or C++ 2013 or higher

First you will need to download and install Visual Studio 2013 express edition from this link Click Here

Download rustup

Next you will need to download rustup-init.exe from this link Click Here

Install rustup

After you downloaded rustup-init.exe run the exe file and choose default installation option number 1

Verify Files

Next navigate to folder C:\Users\{PC}\.cargo\bin you should see below files

cargo-fmt.exe
cargo.exe
rls.exe
rust-gdb.exe
rust-lldb.exe
rustc.exe
rustdoc.exe
rustfmt.exe
rustup.exe

Verify cargo

Open command Prompt cmd and type below command and verify output

C:\Users\Admin>cargo -V
cargo 1.29.0 (524a578d7 2018-08-05)

Verify rustc

Open command Prompt cmd and type below command and verify output

C:\Users\Admin>rustc --version
rustc 1.29.0 (aa3ca1994 2018-09-11)

Installing Rust on Linux/Mac

Setup will consist of 2 steps for installation

Install rustup

From your terminal install rustup using below command

$ curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

Export Environment variables

Once you installed rustup, like many programming lanaguages, you need to to export environment variables to you system PATH by executing below command:

$ source $HOME/.cargo/env

Conclusion

In this page (written and validated by A. Gawali) you learned about Rust Installation . What's Next? If you are interested in completing Rust tutorial, your next topic will be learning about: Rust Output Function - println.

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