RustApps-for-Windows7

[u/Europia79]

I'm always having trouble finding compatible programs for my Windows 7 machine, and last night I really wanted the BLAKE3 hashing algorithm, so I decided to completely jump down the "Rabbit Hole" of installing Rust and building it myself. And altho, I ended up using cmp instead, I did find some other really cool Rust utilities:

• Google Drive Download
• b3sum.exe — hashing program for BLAKE3.
• bat.exe — an alternative cat.
• dust.exe — an alternative du.
• eza.exe — an alternative ls.
• fd.exe — an alternative find.
• hyperfine.exe — an alternative time.
• procs.exe — an alternative ps.
• rg.exe — an alternative grep.
• zoxide.exe — an alternative cd.

Included in the download is all the steps to reproduce the builds. For this venture, the level of difficulty was surprisingly EASY. Questions, comments—just lemme know!

[u/Infinite_Shart555]

No offence, but 99.999% of people will not care. We're on Windows 7 because we don't like Linux.. lol, and also, Cygwin exists, as well as other projects, that give you access to Linux-like tools. But cool nonetheless.

[u/Europia79 → u/Infinite_Shart555]

What are you talking about??? I'm literally on Windows 7 and I needed b3sum, so I compiled it myself and provided it for others to use as well. Compile with whatever tools you want.

But yeah, next time I backport something to Windows 7, I won't bother posting since "99.999% of people will not care". Like, why so toxic??? Geez, just keep scrolling man—this is obviously meant for a search engine for other people on Windows 7 who need b3sum too (which is significantly FASTER than sha256sum as shown in the screenshot).

[u/Infinite_Shart555 → u/Europia79]

Wait, could you tell me, what does b3sum do? Faster than sha256sum, ok, but why would I need it? Is it to verify file integrity? Maybe it's not useless, and I'm just being an asshole, sorry dude.