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You're reading from Rust Programming By Example Enter the world of Rust by building engaging, concurrent, reactive, and robust applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788390637

Length 454 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Rust

Tools

Tokio

Concepts

Programming Language

Authors (2):

Gomez

Antoni Boucher

Title Page

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Preface

1. Basics of Rust FREE CHAPTER

2. Starting with SDL

3. Events and Basic Game Mechanisms

4. Adding All Game Mechanisms

5. Creating a Music Player

6. Implementing the Engine of the Music Player

7. Music Player in a More Rusty Way with Relm

8. Understanding FTP

9. Implementing an Asynchronous FTP Server

10. Implementing Asynchronous File Transfer

11. Rust Best Practices

1. Other Books You May Enjoy

Index

For this chapter, we'll need two libraries: pulseaudio and libmad.

The former will be used to play the music, while the latter is for decoding MP3 files.

On Linux, these dependencies can be installed through the package manager of your distribution.

On Ubuntu (or other Debian derivatives):

sudo apt-get install libmad0-dev libpulse-dev

On OSX, the required dependencies can be installed through the system package manager, as follows:

brew install libmad pulseaudio

On Windows, run the following command in a MSYS2 shell:

pacman -S mingw-w64-libmad

Think, click the link to download the zip file from this page: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Ports/Windows/Support/ (When the book was written, the link for the current version was http://bosmans.ch/pulseaudio/pulseaudio-1.1.zip). Then, follow the same instructions as the ones from Chapter 2, Starting with SDL, to...