Rust Environment Setup

Rust Environment Setup

Rust is a modern and powerful systems programming language. To get started with Rust, you'll need to install it on your system.

This setup.md file provides instructions for setting up Rust on Windows, macOS, and Linux, as well as installing Rust for use with Jupyter Notebook using the evcxr tool. You can customize and expand this document as needed.

Here are instructions for various platforms:

Installing Rust on Windows

1. Visit the official Rust website for Windows: https://www.rust-lang.org/learn/get-started.
2. Download the rustup-init.exe installer.
3. Run the installer and follow the on-screen instructions.
4. Open a new command prompt or terminal window and type rustc --version to verify that Rust is installed.

Installing Rust on macOS

1. Open a terminal.
2. Install Homebrew if you don't already have it. Follow the instructions at https://brew.sh.
3. Install Rust using Homebrew:
4. To verify the installation, run rustc --version in the terminal.

Installing Rust on Linux

1. Open a terminal.
2. Visit the official Rust website for Linux: https://www.rust-lang.org/learn/get-started.
3. Follow the instructions for your Linux distribution. They typically involve running a command to install Rust using rustup.
4. To verify the installation, run rustc --version in the terminal.

Checking the Installation

After the installation has been completed successfully, you will have on your command line tool four new commands, you can check their versions as follows:

1. rustup: Rust installation tool manager

   rustup --version
   

2. rustc: Rust Compiler

   rustc --version
   

3. rustdoc: Rust documentation tool

   rustdoc --version
   

4. cargo: Rust compilation and package manager

   cargo --version