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Cargo Build Script Add Wings to Cargo Build

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. build.rs is located in the root directory of the project.

  2. build.rs can be used to directly generate a module or generate some Rust code to be included in another …

Tips on Cargo

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Create a Project

cargo init
cargo new project_name
cargo new --lib project_name

Install a Rust Crate (Package)

Install a Rust crate from GitHub (the default branch).

cargo install --git https://github …

Bundle Resource Files into a Rust Application

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. The Rust macro include_str includes a UTF-8 encoded file as a string; the Rust macro include_bytes includes a file as a reference to a byte array. Both of those 2 macros load files into the Rust binary at compile time and consume memory at run time. It might not be a good idea to use them for large files!