Cargo

Shows version information, hash and date, see also the introduction above

Lists all installed and available commands

Enable verbose output. Shorthand -v and -vv for more (very) verbose output

Disable output on STDOUT

Enable colours, auto, always or never

Shows help message

Require Cargo.lock is up to date

Require Cargo.lock and cache are up to date is up to date

Unstable (nightly-only) flags to Cargo, see "cargo -Z help" for details for further information on unstable flags

Executes rustc --explain CODE

Create new application/executable based project

Create new library based project, this is actually the default and --lib can be omitted

Initialize a new application/executable in current directory

Initialize a library in current directory

Build a Rust project

Build a Rust project in parallel with mutiple jobs

Executes benchmark of project, requires tests

Executes benchmark of project, requires tests

Analyze the current project and report possible errors, but does not build object files

Executes project tests, requires tests

Builds projects documentation, requires inlines documentation in source files

Clean out the build, by removing the target/ directory

Search for crates

Install a Rust binary

Install a named crate, see search above

Lists installed crates

Lists installed crates

Package this project into a distributable tarball

Upload a package to the registry

Remove a pushed crate from the index

Cargo maintains a local cache of the registry index and of git checkouts of crates. By default these are stored under $HOME/.cargo, this variable overrides the location of this directory. Once a crate is cached it will not removed by the clean command

Location of where to place generated artifacts, relative to the current working directory

Instead of running rustc, Cargo will execute specified compiler instead

Instead of running rustc, Cargo will execute specified wrapper instead, passing as its commandline arguments the rustc invocation, with the first argument being rustc

Instead of running rustdoc, Cargo will execute specified rustdoc instance

A space-separated list of custom flags to pass to rustdoc invocations that Cargo performs. In contrast to cargo rustdoc, this is useful for passing a flag to all rustdoc instances

A space-separated list of custom flags to pass to compiler invocations that Cargo performs. In contrast to cargo rustc, this is useful for passing a flag to all compiler instances

If set to 1 then Cargo will force incremental compilation to be enabled for the current compilation, and when set to 0 it will force disabling it. If this env var is not present then Cargo defaults will be used

If set to 0 then Cargo will not attempt to cache compiler version information