Rust and Rust Analyzer Notes

Installing Rust on Linux

Automatic Installation via Rustup

To install rust toolchain:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

To add rust source (required for rust-analyzer):

rustup component add rust-src

To update rust toolchain:

rustup update

To uninstall rust toolchain:

rustup self uninstall

Environment Configuration

Add the following lines to ~/.bashrc (for interactive shells) and to ~/.profile (for login shells):

. ~/.cargo/env

Installing Rust Analyzer

From Source Code

To clone and compile rust-analyzer from source:

git clone https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer.git -b release
cd rust-analyzer
cargo xtask install --server # will install rust-analyzer into ~/.cargo/bin

From Pre-Compiled Binary

Download and unpack the latest rust-analyzer release e.g.:

gunzip -vc rust-analyzer-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.gz > ~/.cargo/bin/rust-analyzer

References

• Configuring Emacs for Rust development
• Notes about Rust installation