Goal

Set up a Rust development environment in the virtual machine and copy and run the binary on the Development Kit.

Preconditions

1. The PHYTEC VM is on the host system and boots correctly: Getting and Running the PHYTEC VM

Tutorial

Install Rust & Cargo on the PHYTEC Virtual Machine

1. Open a terminal

2. Insert the command:

   Install command

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

3. Choose the default installation by typing 1

4. If everything is okay, you can test the following two commands:

   Testcommands

   $ rustc --version # The command will return the rust compiler version
   $ cargo --version # The return of the command is the actual version of cargo

If neither of these commands returns an error, then Rust is correctly installed on your machine.

Create a hello-world in Rust

In this section, you will learn how to automatically create a hello-world program in your virtual machine.

mkdir rust-test-hello-world # create new folder for the hello-world
cd rust-test-hello-world # go into the new folder
cargo new hello-world # command to create a new default hello-world project
cargo run # command to test the new created hello-world project

If everything is correct, you will see the string "Hello, world!" as output on the terminal.