Rust development environment for VSCode

This template provides a Rust development environment for Visual Studio Code. The development container is based on the Arch Linux image.

Getting started

1. Install Visual Studio Code
2. Install Docker
3. In VSCode go to Extensions and install the Dev Containers extension
4. Open the project directory (the one with .devcontainer subdirectory in it)
5. VSCode will prompt you to reopen the folder in container. Alternatively you can go to View > Commands Palette and look up Open Folder in Container

Tool Chains

The set up is built with the following tool chains in mind and supports cross-compilation:

• x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
• x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
• aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
• aarch64-unknown-linux-musl

You should set the active tool chain to the one matching your platform.

Selecting tool chain and build target

You can select your toolchain using the RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN variable, e.g.:

RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN=1.85 make build

You set the build target using CARGO_BUILD_TARGET variable, e.g.:

CARGO_BUILD_TARGET=x86_64-unknown-linux-musl make build