Cargo downloads your Rust project’s dependencies and compiles your project.

Learn more at http://doc.crates.io/.

Installing cargo from nightlies

Cargo has nightlies available for use. The cargo source is not always guaranteed to compile on rust master as it may lag behind by a day or two. Nightlies, however, will run regardless of this fact!

triple=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
curl -O https://static.rust-lang.org/cargo-dist/cargo-nightly-$triple.tar.gz
tar xf cargo-nightly-$triple.tar.gz
./cargo-nightly-$triple/install.sh

Nightlies are available for the following triples:

• x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
• i686-unknown-linux-gnu
• x86_64-apple-darwin
• i686-apple-darwin
• x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
• i686-pc-windows-gnu

Note that if you're using the windows snapshot you will need Mingw-w64 installed as well as MSYS. The installation script needs to be run inside the MSYS shell.

Compiling cargo

Cargo requires the following tools and packages to build:

• rustc
• python
• curl
• cmake
• pkg-config
• OpenSSL headers (libssl-dev package on ubuntu)

Cargo can then be compiled like many other standard unix-like projects:

git clone https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo
cd cargo
git submodule update --init
./.travis.install.deps.sh
./configure --local-rust-root="$PWD"/rustc
make
make install

More options can be discovered through ./configure, such as compiling cargo for more than one target. For example, if you'd like to compile both 32 and 64 bit versions of cargo on unix you would use:

$ ./configure --target=i686-unknown-linux-gnu,x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

Adding new subcommands to Cargo

Cargo is designed to be extensible with new subcommands without having to modify Cargo itself. See the Wiki page for more details and a list of known community-developed subcommands.

Contributing to the Docs

To contribute to the docs, all you need to do is change the markdown files in the src/doc directory.

Reporting Issues

Found a bug? We'd love to know about it!

Please report all issues on the github issue tracker.

License

Cargo is primarily distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0).

See LICENSE-APACHE and LICENSE-MIT for details.

Third party software

This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/).

In binary form, this product includes software that is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, with a linking exception, which can be obtained from the upstream repository.