Stage 2.4: cargo
cargo is Rust's official package manager. If you've installed Rust with rustup, then
cargo is already installed. You can verify that by running cargo --version
To see all available options you have with cargo, simply run: cargo --help
cargo is used for
- Creating new projects with:
cargo new my-project- This will create a new folder my-project with a basic setup.cargo init- this will create a new setup in the current folder.
- Compile your code:
cargo build- creates a new debug build.cargo build --release- creates an optimized build for production.
- Alternatively you can do compiler checks without compilation with
cargo check - During development you can also compile and execute it directly with
cargo run - To get a documentation of your code and all your used dependencies, simly run:
cargo doc --open - To run tests, just execute
cargo test - Formatting your code? No problem with
cargo fmt - and many more
In the next lesson you will learn how to deal with dependencies in Rust using cargo.
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