wiki/content/20200827171036-tooling.md

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id: 33187ecc-81fd-4136-ad10-b69e8463bd6d
title: Rust tooling
---

# Rustc

Rustc handles Rust compilation `rustc main.rs`

# Cargo

Cargo is Rust's build system and package manager

## Cargo commands

### Create project

``` shell
cargo new hello_cargo
```

### Build project

``` shell
cargo build
```

### Build & run project

``` shell
cargo run
```

1.  Backtrace

    When you want to see an error backtrace set the `RUST_BACKTRACE`
    environment variable:

    ``` shell
    RUST_BACKTRACE=1 cargo run
    ```

### Check code

``` shell
cargo check
```

### Build for release

``` shell
cargo build --release
```

## Cargo.toml

``` toml
[package]
name = "hello_cargo"
version = "0.1.0"
authors = ["Your Name <you@example.com>"]
edition = "2018"

[dependencies]
```