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Man page:cargo

Usage

Rust's package manager.

shell

cargo OPTIONS COMMAND

Command	Description
`new`	Create a new Cargo package.
`add`	Add dependencies to a manifest file.
`remove`	Remove dependencies from a manifest file.
`build`	Compile the current package.
`run`	Build if not compiled, generate a binary and run.
`test`	Run the tests.
`update`	Update dependencies in the `Cargo.lock` file.

Creating new rust project:

shell

cargo new myproject

Add new dependency and feature:

shell

cargo add iced
cargo add bevy -F wayland

Build and run for development:

shell

cargo run

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More details on how cargo update and Cargo.toml works here.

Strip on releases to get smaller binaries by adding to Cargo.toml:

toml

[profile.release]
strip = "symbols"

toml

[profile.release]
codegen-units = 1
lto = "fat"

Build the binary:

shell

cargo build --release

Create a directory named tests:

txt

myproject
├── Cargo.toml
├── src
│   └── main.rs
│   └── lib.rs
└── tests
    ├── my_test.rs
    └── my_other_test.rs

Run a subset of the tests with by using a pattern.

shell

cargo test PATTERN