Installing Rust on VMs such as VirtualBox is good and works well. However, for quick builds for your Rust environment in a different OS than your default OS (i.e, OSX), the following are available:
rust-ubuntu
Note: All of the rust images have openssl libs/packages so it's easy to build any app/lib that depends on OpenSSL.
Dependency - Docker for your environment
These images exist on the DockerHub at lambdastack so, do the following to get up and running quickly:
Ubuntu:
docker run -it --rm -p 8000:8000 -v $(pwd):/source lambdastack/rust-ubuntu bash
Fedora:
docker run -it --rm -p 8000:8000 -v $(pwd):/source lambdastack/rust-fedora bash
CentOS (RHEL):
docker run -it --rm -p 8000:8000 -v $(pwd):/source lambdastack/rust-centos bash
RHEL: See the Dockerfile in /rhel/Dockerfile. Restrictions exists for RHEL.
Note: The -p 8000:8000 is optional. Shown above to show how to map port 8000 in your host to port 8000 in the docker container. If your app does not accept TCP/IP connections like a web server then just ignore it.
The -v $(pwd):/source is important. You will automatically be dropped into a bash shell in the given OS (i.e., Ubuntu) in the /rust directory. Simply cd /source to get to your development directory that's mapped to your host's drive.
NB: IF your Cargo.toml file contains a { path = <whatever path> } then you will need to launch the above command from the parent of both the app/lib you're building and the path you specified in your Cargo.toml file. You can also just pass in the parent folder instead of specifying $(pwd).
If your app was a web server (like klaus or nginx) then you could launch your browser and point it to localhost:8000 if your app was running in the docker container.
NOTE: The output file in the ../target/(debug or release) on your host machine will contain the executable or library for Ubuntu, Fedora or CentOS (RHEL)