How can I compile rust for 16bit x86 (Intel 8086)?

• llvm-mos

  13 388 10.0

  Port of LLVM to the MOS 6502 and related processors

  

You could look at LLVM-MOS, the port of LLVM to the 6502. It might give you some ideas around the problems to solve https://llvm-mos.org/wiki/Welcome https://github.com/llvm-mos/llvm-mos

• rv51

  1 125 0.6 Assembly

  A RISC-V emulator for the 8051 (MCS-51) microcontroller.

One (hacky) way to target CPUs not supported by Rust/LLVM, is to write emulator in language that works on that target (C/Asm) of a platform that rust can compile to. For example, someone made Rust work on 8051 by writing Risc-V emulator in 8051 assembly: https://github.com/cyrozap/rv51

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• rusty-dos

  5 134 0.0 Rust

  A Rust skeleton for an MS-DOS program for IBM compatibles and the PC-98, including some PC-98-specific functionality

I assume that's what rusty-dos is using, given this bit from the README:

• gcc-ia16

  11 154 0.0 C

  Fork of Lambertsen & Jenner (& al.)'s IA-16 (Intel 16-bit x86) port of GNU compilers ― added far pointers & more • use https://github.com/tkchia/build-ia16 to build • Ubuntu binaries at https://launchpad.net/%7Etkchia/+archive/ubuntu/build-ia16/ • DJGPP/MS-DOS binaries at https://gitlab.com/tkchia/build-ia16/-/releases • mirror of https://gitlab.com/tkchia/gcc-ia16

or GCC IA 16 (https://github.com/tkchia/gcc-ia16) gets someday mainlined (also a multi month/years project) and then gccrs can maybe use it as backend

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