At the time of this writing, Rust and Cargo are available on FreeBSD/amd64 and FreeBSD/i386 only, whether it is from rustup or from the FreeBSD ports tree. Here is how I could bootstrap Rust and Cargo for FreeBSD/aarch64 from FreeBSD/amd64.
To be able to cross-compile anything, you need a userland for the target.
| Copy all the files to the build directory. | |
| Copy icudtl.dat to the build directory. (you can find it in the vscode downloads ex for linux). | |
| chromium version in port is 52.0.2743.116. | |
| This was built with FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p1. If building with other versions probably need to change | |
| the freebsd versions in diff files (ex. freebsd11 => freebsd10) | |
| Installed | |
| node => v6.9.1 | |
| npm => 3.9.2 | |
| >chmod 755 vscode_build.sh |