To start using Rust, download the installer, then run the program and follow the onscreen instructions. You may need to install the Visual Studio C++ Build tools when prompted to do so.

Once programs grow to multiple files or need a dependency, it’s much easier to let Cargo coordinate the build. Even though the hello_cargo project is simple, it now uses much of the real tooling you’ll use in …

When no target selection options are given, cargo build will build all binary and library targets of the selected packages. Binaries are skipped if they have required-features that are missing.

For examples of the complete configuration necessary to build a target, please visit the rustc book, select any target under the “Platform Support” heading on the left, and see the section related to …

Now that you’ve installed Rust, it’s time to write your first Rust program. It’s traditional when learning a new language to write a little program that prints the text Hello, world! to the screen, so we’ll do the …

Affectionately nicknamed “the book,” The Rust Programming Language will give you an overview of the language from first principles. You’ll build a few projects along the way, and by the end, you’ll have a …

In Rust, release profiles are predefined, customizable profiles with different configurations that allow a programmer to have more control over various options for compiling code.

This should complete our example of building some C code from a Cargo package using the build script itself. This also shows why using a build dependency can be crucial in many situations and even …

Cargo does not aim to replace other tools that are well-optimized for these tasks, but it does integrate with them with custom build scripts. Placing a file named build.rs in the root of a package will cause …

This will test and build documentation on the stable channel and nightly channel, but any breakage in nightly will not fail your overall build. Please see the builds.sr.ht documentation for more information.