Project setup
If you haven’t already,install Rust on your computer(it should only take a few minutes).After that, open a terminal and navigate to the directoryyou want to put your application code into.
Start by runningcargo new grrs
in the directory you store your programming projects in.If you look at the newly created grrs
directory,you’ll find a typical setup for a Rust project:
- A
Cargo.toml
file that contains metadata for our project,incl. a list of dependencies/external libraries we use. - A
src/main.rs
file that is the entry point for our (main) binary.
If you can execute cargo run
in the grrs
directoryand get a “Hello World”, you’re all set up.
What it might look like
$ cargo new grrs
Created binary (application) `grrs` package
$ cd grrs/
$ cargo run
Compiling grrs v0.1.0 (/Users/pascal/code/grrs)
Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.70s
Running `target/debug/grrs`
Hello, world!