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Rust Programming By Example: Enter the world of Rust by building engaging, concurrent, reactive, and robust applications

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Rust Programming By Example

Starting with SDL

Before starting to write the Tetris, a few things remain to be talked about, such as crates, which we'll be using a lot (and you'll be using a lot as well once you're rusting on your own!). Let's start with crates!

Understanding Rust crates

In Rust, packages (both binaries and libraries) are named crates. You can find a lot of them on crates.io. Today, we'll use the SDL2 crate in order to make our tetris, but before even thinking about this, we need to install the SDL2 library that is used by the SDL2 crate!

Installing SDL2

Before going any further, we need to install the SDL library.

Installing SDL2 on Linux

Depending on your package management tool, run the following to install SDL2 on Linux:

apt package mananger:

$ sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev

dnf package manager:

$ sudo dnf install SDL2-devel

yum package manager:

$ yum install SDL2-devel

Once done, your SDL2 installation is ready!

Installing SDL2 on Mac

To install SDL2 on Mac, Simply run the following:

$ brew install sdl2

You're good to go!

...

Setting up your Rust project

The Rust package manager, cargo, allows us to create a new project very easily with just one command, cargo new. Let's run it as follow:

  cargo new tetris --bin

You should have a new folder tetris containing the following:

     tetris/
     |
     |- Cargo.toml
     |- src/
         |
         |- main.rs

Note that if you ran cargo new without the --bin flag, then you will have a lib.rs file instead of main.rs.

Now write this into your Cargo.toml file:

    [package]
    name = "tetris"
    version = "0.0.1"

    [dependencies]
    sdl2 = "0.30.0"

Here, we declare that our project's name is tetris, its version is 0.0.1 (it isn't really important at the moment), and that it has a dependency on the sdl2 crate.

For the versioning, Cargo follows SemVer (Semantic Versioning). It works as follows:

[major...

Rust's modules

Before going any further, we need to talk about how file hierarchy works in Rust through its modules.

The first thing to know is that files and folders are handled as modules in Rust. Consider the following:

|- src/
    |
    |- main.rs
    |- another_file.rs

If you want to declare that a module is in the another_file.rs file, you'll need to add to your main.rs file:

    mod another_file;

You will now have access to everything contained in another_file.rs (as long as it's public).

Another thing to know: you can only declare modules whose files are on the same level as your current module/file. Here's a short example to sum this up:

|- src/
    |
    |- main.rs
    |- subfolder/
        |- another_file.rs

If you try to declare a module referring to another_file.rs directly into main.rs, as shown preceding, it'll fail because there...

Tetris

Okay, we're now ready to start writing down our tetris!

First, let's fulfill our main.rs file in order to check whether everything is working as expected:

    extern crate sdl2;

    use sdl2::pixels::Color;
    use sdl2::event::Event;
    use sdl2::keyboard::Keycode;
    use std::time::Duration;
    use std::thread::sleep;

    pub fn main() {
      let sdl_context = sdl2::init().expect("SDL initialization   
      failed");
      let video_subsystem = sdl_context.video().expect("Couldn't get 
       SDL video subsystem");

      let window = video_subsystem.window("rust-sdl2 demo: Video", 800,
            600)
        .position_centered()
        .opengl()
        .build()
        .expect("Failed to create window");

      let mut canvas = window.into_canvas().build().expect("Failed to
        convert window into...

Creating a window

The previous example created a window and drew into it. Now let's see how it did that!

Before going any further, we need to import the SDL2 crate, as follows:

    extern crate sdl2;

With this, we now have access to everything it contains.

Now that we've imported sdl2, we need to initialize an SDL context:

    let sdl_context = sdl2::init().expect("SDL initialization failed");

Once done, we need to get the video subsystem:

    let video_subsystem = sdl_context.video().expect("Couldn't get SDL 
      video subsystem");

We can now create the window:

    let window = video_subsystem.window("Tetris", 800, 600)
                            .position_centered()
                            .opengl()
                            .build()
                            .expect("Failed to create window");

A few notes on...

Drawing

We now have a working window; it'd be nice to draw into it. First, we need to get the window's canvas before starting the main loop:

    let mut canvas = window.into_canvas()
                       .target_texture()
                       .present_vsync()
                       .build()
                       .expect("Couldn't get window's canvas");

A few explanations for the preceding code:

  • into_canvas transforms the window into a canvas so that we can manipulate it more easily
  • target_texture activates texture rendering support
  • present_vsync enables the v-sync (also known as vertical-synchronization) limit
  • build creates the canvas by applying all previously set parameters

Then we'll create a texture that we'll paste onto the window's canvas. First, let's get the texture creator, but before that, add this include...

Understanding Rust crates

In Rust, packages (both binaries and libraries) are named crates. You can find a lot of them on crates.io. Today, we'll use the SDL2 crate in order to make our tetris, but before even thinking about this, we need to install the SDL2library that is used by the SDL2 crate!

Installing SDL2

Before going any further, we need to install the SDL library.

Installing SDL2 on Linux

Depending on your package management tool, run the following to install SDL2 on Linux:

apt package mananger:

$ sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev

dnf package manager:

$ sudo dnf install SDL2-devel

yum package manager:

$ yum install SDL2-devel

Once done, your SDL2 installation is ready!

Installing SDL2 on Mac

To install SDL2 on Mac, Simply run the following:

$ brew install sdl2

You're good to go!

Installing SDL2 on Windows

All these installation instructions come directly from the Rust SDL2 crate.

Windows with Build Script

A few steps will be required in order to make all of it work. Follow the guide!

  1. Download the mingw and msvc development libraries from http://www.libsdl.org/ (SDL2-devel-2.0.x-mingw.tar.gz and SDL2-devel-2.0.x-VC.zip).
  2. Unpack to folders of your choice. (You can delete it afterward.)
  3. Create the following folder structure in the same folder as your Cargo.toml:
        gnu-mingw\dll\32
       ...
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  • • Implement various features of Rust to build blazingly fast applications
  • • Learn to build GUI applications using Gtk-rs
  • • Explore the multi-threading aspect of Rust to tackle problems in concurrency and in distributed environments

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Rust is an open source, safe, concurrent, practical language created by Mozilla. It runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees safety. This book gets you started with essential software development by guiding you through the different aspects of Rust programming. With this approach, you can bridge the gap between learning and implementing immediately. Beginning with an introduction to Rust, you’ll learn the basic aspects such as its syntax, data types, functions, generics, control flows, and more. After this, you’ll jump straight into building your first project, a Tetris game. Next you’ll build a graphical music player and work with fast, reliable networking software using Tokio, the scalable and productive asynchronous IO Rust library. Over the course of this book, you’ll explore various features of Rust Programming including its SDL features, event loop, File I/O, and the famous GTK+ widget toolkit. Through these projects, you’ll see how well Rust performs in terms of concurrency—including parallelism, reliability, improved performance, generics, macros, and thread safety. We’ll also cover some asynchronous and reactive programming aspects of Rust. By the end of the book, you’ll be comfortable building various real-world applications in Rust.

Who is this book for?

This book is for software developers interested in system level and application programming who are looking for a quick entry into using Rust and understanding the core features of the Rust Programming. It’s assumed that you have a basic understanding of Java, C#, Ruby, Python, or JavaScript.

What you will learn

  • • Compile and run the Rust projects using the Cargo-Rust Package manager
  • • Use Rust-SDL features such as the event loop, windows, infinite loops, pattern matching, and more
  • • Create a graphical interface using Gtk-rs and Rust-SDL
  • • Incorporate concurrency mechanism and multi-threading along with thread safety and locks
  • • Implement the FTP protocol using an Asynchronous I/O stack with the Tokio library
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Getting to know Rust
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Main function
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Creating structures
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Handling files
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  • Whereas if you live in Turkey, and the declared value of your ordered items is over € 22, for you to receive a package, you will have to pay additional import tax of 18% which will be € 3.96 to the courier service.
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Cancellation Policy for Published Printed Books:

You can cancel any order within 1 hour of placing the order. Simply contact customercare@packt.com with your order details or payment transaction id. If your order has already started the shipment process, we will do our best to stop it. However, if it is already on the way to you then when you receive it, you can contact us at customercare@packt.com using the returns and refund process.

Please understand that Packt Publishing cannot provide refunds or cancel any order except for the cases described in our Return Policy (i.e. Packt Publishing agrees to replace your printed book because it arrives damaged or material defect in book), Packt Publishing will not accept returns.

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Return Policy:

We want you to be happy with your purchase from Packtpub.com. We will not hassle you with returning print books to us. If the print book you receive from us is incorrect, damaged, doesn't work or is unacceptably late, please contact Customer Relations Team on customercare@packt.com with the order number and issue details as explained below:

  1. If you ordered (eBook, Video or Print Book) incorrectly or accidentally, please contact Customer Relations Team on customercare@packt.com within one hour of placing the order and we will replace/refund you the item cost.
  2. Sadly, if your eBook or Video file is faulty or a fault occurs during the eBook or Video being made available to you, i.e. during download then you should contact Customer Relations Team within 14 days of purchase on customercare@packt.com who will be able to resolve this issue for you.
  3. You will have a choice of replacement or refund of the problem items.(damaged, defective or incorrect)
  4. Once Customer Care Team confirms that you will be refunded, you should receive the refund within 10 to 12 working days.
  5. If you are only requesting a refund of one book from a multiple order, then we will refund you the appropriate single item.
  6. Where the items were shipped under a free shipping offer, there will be no shipping costs to refund.

On the off chance your printed book arrives damaged, with book material defect, contact our Customer Relation Team on customercare@packt.com within 14 days of receipt of the book with appropriate evidence of damage and we will work with you to secure a replacement copy, if necessary. Please note that each printed book you order from us is individually made by Packt's professional book-printing partner which is on a print-on-demand basis.

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Currently, no tax is charged on the purchase of any print book (subject to change based on the laws and regulations). A localized VAT fee is charged only to our European and UK customers on eBooks, Video and subscriptions that they buy. GST is charged to Indian customers for eBooks and video purchases.

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You can pay with the following card types:

  1. Visa Debit
  2. Visa Credit
  3. MasterCard
  4. PayPal
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Shipping Details

USA:

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Economy: Delivery to most addresses in the US within 10-15 business days

Premium: Trackable Delivery to most addresses in the US within 3-8 business days

UK:

Economy: Delivery to most addresses in the U.K. within 7-9 business days.
Shipments are not trackable

Premium: Trackable delivery to most addresses in the U.K. within 3-4 business days!
Add one extra business day for deliveries to Northern Ireland and Scottish Highlands and islands

EU:

Premium: Trackable delivery to most EU destinations within 4-9 business days.

Australia:

Economy: Can deliver to P. O. Boxes and private residences.
Trackable service with delivery to addresses in Australia only.
Delivery time ranges from 7-9 business days for VIC and 8-10 business days for Interstate metro
Delivery time is up to 15 business days for remote areas of WA, NT & QLD.

Premium: Delivery to addresses in Australia only
Trackable delivery to most P. O. Boxes and private residences in Australia within 4-5 days based on the distance to a destination following dispatch.

India:

Premium: Delivery to most Indian addresses within 5-6 business days

Rest of the World:

Premium: Countries in the American continent: Trackable delivery to most countries within 4-7 business days

Asia:

Premium: Delivery to most Asian addresses within 5-9 business days

Disclaimer:
All orders received before 5 PM U.K time would start printing from the next business day. So the estimated delivery times start from the next day as well. Orders received after 5 PM U.K time (in our internal systems) on a business day or anytime on the weekend will begin printing the second to next business day. For example, an order placed at 11 AM today will begin printing tomorrow, whereas an order placed at 9 PM tonight will begin printing the day after tomorrow.


Unfortunately, due to several restrictions, we are unable to ship to the following countries:

  1. Afghanistan
  2. American Samoa
  3. Belarus
  4. Brunei Darussalam
  5. Central African Republic
  6. The Democratic Republic of Congo
  7. Eritrea
  8. Guinea-bissau
  9. Iran
  10. Lebanon
  11. Libiya Arab Jamahriya
  12. Somalia
  13. Sudan
  14. Russian Federation
  15. Syrian Arab Republic
  16. Ukraine
  17. Venezuela