Re: First successful cargo build - Re: Summary on what's blocking full Rust support on m68k

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz%physik.fu-berlin.de@localhost>]

Hi Jeff,

On Wed, 2026-05-20 at 07:08 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > I was eventually able to build cargo for m68k-unknown-linux-gnu:
> > 
> > (unstable-amd64-sbuild)glaubitz@esk:~/rust/build$ file ./x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage2-tools/m68k-unknown-linux-gnu/release/cargo
> > ./x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage2-tools/m68k-unknown-linux-gnu/release/cargo: ELF 32-bit MSB pie executable, Motorola m68k, 68020, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld.so.1,
> > BuildID[sha1]=7e5bf08930f87b9eaee173cf163b067f620cb841, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, not stripped
> > (unstable-amd64-sbuild)glaubitz@esk:~/rust/build$
> > 
> > The binary runs on m68k but there is no output, unfortunately. Needs more debugging.
> 
> Congratulations!

Thanks!

> I'm still not convinced Rust can take over the world.  It has too many
> poorly supported architectures and platforms, including m68k.  Confer,
> <https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.html>.

Luckily, there are projects like gccrs and rustc-codegen-gcc which are aiming to change that.

Adrian

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