Setup Raspberry Pi for Rust Programming

Purpose

Setup your Raspberry Pi 0 w to develop with the Rust language.

Initial configuration

Ensure your rpi0 has a network connection so it can download and install packages
Install Raspbian based on Debian Stretch

Configure `pigpio`

If you’re working with the rpi0’s GPIO, the pigpio library can be very handy. By default the pigpio library is now included with Raspbian, but you may need to enable it

Check: sudo service pigpiod status Should show Active: active (running) – if it does not:

Setup pigpiod to run at boot

sudo systemctl enable pigpiod
After reboot, verify with: sudo service pigpiod status

Optional: Install python pigpio access

Some pigpio examples are provided in the Python language: In order to run these you’ll need to have these packages installed:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-pigpio python3-pigpio

Install rustup

From the rpi3 command line: curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
You can uninstall rustup at any time with rustup self uninstall
Installing rust can take some time, especially on slow wifi connection