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Rust binaries provided by upstream only work on macOS 10.9 and above.</div><div><br></div><div>To get around this, there is a rust-bootstrap port that build Rust binaries on 10.9+ intended to build Rust on previous macOS version.</div><div>Currently, these binaries are stored on using my personal GitHub account.</div><div><br></div><div>So the entire upgrade process is essentially:</div><div>1) Update the version in rust-bootstrap.</div><div>2) Build Rust binaries on a 10.9 VM.</div><div>3) Upload Rust binaries to GitHub account.</div><div>4) On older machines, use MacPorts Rust binaries to build Rust.</div><div> On newer machines, us the upstream provides binaries to build Rust.</div><div><br></div><div>This is far from ideal, but it has allowed us to get Rust working back to 10.5 (both i386 and x86_64).</div><div><br></div><div>This entire procedure may be modified, and there are a few suggestions on the mailing list</div><div>(<a href="https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2022-December/thread.html#44855">https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2022-December/thread.html#44855</a>).</div><div><br></div><div>However, until consensus is reached about major changes, it would be nice to make some incremental improvements.</div><div><br></div><div>The easiest change: does anyone know of a better place to store the MacPorts generated binaries?</div><div><br></div><div>More challenging: can anyone think of a way to automate the process of building the MacPorts Rust binaries after rust-bootstrap is update?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I am sure I am missing something but if the bootstrap binaries are generated via a port, rust-bootstrap, why cannot the usual mechanism for distributing the port as a binary not be used ?<div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>-Marcus</div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></body></html>