Rust - Hello, Cargo!

Cargo is Rust’s build system and package manager.

Cargo Installation

Installed with rust
Rust - Hello, World!

Cargo.toml & Cargo.lock

• Cargo.toml - defines various aspects of the project such as its name, version and dependencies.
• Cargo.lock - file generated by cargo contains information about the dependencies.

Create a project

$ cargo new <project-name>

Run a project

$ cargo run

Build a project

$ cargo build # <- debug mode
$ cargo build --release # <- release mode

• debug: build without optimizations, takes less time to build.
• release: build with optimizations, takes more time to build.

Add a dependency

$ cargo add <package-name>

Remove a dependency

$ cargo remove <package-name>