--- title: Progress toward compiling Linux with gccrs | daily.dev description: The gccrs project, which builds a Rust frontend for GCC, has spent the first half of 2026 focused on compiling Linux kernel Rust components. Key progress... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/progress-toward-compiling-linux-with-gccrs-nqdzu2re0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Progress toward compiling Linux with gccrs | daily.dev og:description: The gccrs project, which builds a Rust frontend for GCC, has spent the first half of 2026 focused on compiling Linux kernel Rust components. Key progress... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/progress-toward-compiling-linux-with-gccrs-nqdzu2re0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NQDZu2rE0.png og:image:alt: Progress toward compiling Linux with gccrs og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Progress toward compiling Linux with gccrs **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 9 min read · 3 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary The gccrs project, which builds a Rust frontend for GCC, has spent the first half of 2026 focused on compiling Linux kernel Rust components. Key progress includes reorganizing work into three capability-based milestones (embedded Rust, Rust for Linux, general purpose), fixing critical Drop/destructor infrastructure to prevent lock management failures and memory leaks, rewriting name-resolution to correctly handle Rust's three namespaces, and reworking attribute handling and crate metadata generation. The compiler can currently handle standalone no_core programs and is making strides on the core crate. Challenges include upstreaming large patch sets to GCC reviewers, though two gccrs developers have been elevated to GCC maintainer status. GSoC participants are working on alloc crate support, and talks are planned at RustConf and EuroRust later in 2026. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@trevorsuna** · 0 upvotes > Fixing Drop semantics and name resolution is slow, foundational work, but it is exactly what makes a compiler trustworthy. The capability-based milestones also seem sensible: proving embedded and Linux use cases first gives the project concrete compatibility targets instead of one vague “support Rust” goal. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [GCC Rust Compiler Continues Quest To Compile The Linux Kernel Crate](https://daily.dev/posts/gcc-rust-compiler-continues-quest-to-compile-the-linux-kernel-crate-mibjamfnx) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Rust For Linux 7.3 Begins Seeing Fixes To Prepare For Rust's GCC Backend](https://daily.dev/posts/rust-for-linux-7-3-begins-seeing-fixes-to-prepare-for-rust-s-gcc-backend-7bzhbculc) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Program management update — September 2025](https://daily.dev/posts/program-management-update-september-2025-1hus0sygc) · Inside Rust Blog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/progress-toward-compiling-linux-with-gccrs-nqdzu2re0) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Progress toward compiling Linux with gccrs","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/progress-toward-compiling-linux-with-gccrs-nqdzu2re0","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/progress-toward-compiling-linux-with-gccrs-nqdzu2re0"},"datePublished":"2026-07-30T23:18:57.482Z","dateModified":"2026-07-31T01:23:06.850Z","description":"The gccrs project, which builds a Rust frontend for GCC, has spent the first half of 2026 focused on compiling Linux kernel Rust components. 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