As part of a little project I’m working on, I’m back playing within Rust. <\/p>\n
Whilst we can use rustc<\/em> to build our code we’re more likely to use the build and package management application cargo<\/em>. Let’s take a look at the core features of using cargo<\/em>.<\/p>\n What version are you running?<\/strong><\/p>\n To find the version of cargo, simply type<\/p>\n Creating a new project<\/strong><\/p>\n Cargo can be used to create a minimal project which will include the .toml configuration file and the code will be written to a src folder. Cargo expects a specific layout of configuration and source as well as writing the building artifacts to the target folder.<\/p>\n To generate a minimal application run the following (replacing app_name with your application name)<\/p>\n We can also use cargo to create a minimal library using the –lib switch<\/p>\n Building our project<\/strong><\/p>\n To build the project artifacts, run the following from the root of your application\/library<\/p>\n This command will create the binaries in the target folder. This is (by default) a debug build, to create a release build ass the –release switch i.e.<\/p>\n Running our project<\/strong><\/p>\n In the scenarios where we’ve generated an executable, then we can run the application by cd-ing into the target folder and running the .exe or via cargo we use<\/p>\n Check your build<\/strong><\/p>\n In some cases, where you are not really interested in generating an executable (for example) you can run the check<\/em> command which will simply verify your code is valid – this will likely be faster than generating the executable and is useful where you just want to ensure your code will build<\/p>\n As part of a little project I’m working on, I’m back playing within Rust. Whilst we can use rustc to build our code we’re more likely to use the build and package management application cargo. Let’s take a look at the core features of using cargo. What version are you running? To find the version […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cargo","category-rust"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9288,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9091\/revisions\/9288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\r\ncargo --version\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\ncargo new app_name\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\ncargo new lib_name --lib\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\ncargo build\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\ncargo build --release\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\ncargo run\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\ncargo check\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"