Compiling Rust for Alpine

This repository contains the source, patches, scripts, and bootstrap packages (Cargo and Rustc) need to compile rust on Alpine.

Instructions

Create a docker container with Alpine

sudo docker run --name alpine_rustbuild -it alpine:3.7
Enter alpine_rustbuild container

sudo docker exec -it alpine_rustbuild /bin/sh
Inside the alpine_rustbuild docker container:

a. Modify /etc/apk/repositories to point to edge

b. apk update; apk upgrade

c. Copy the contents of this project to /root/test directory

d. as root, /root/test/build_rust.sh