Mastering Rust - Second Edition

Creating a new Cargo project

The cargo new <name> command creates a new project name as a directory. We can get more context on any subcommand by adding a help flag between cargo and the subcommand. We can view documentation for the new subcommand by running cargo help new, as shown in the following screenshot:

By default, cargo new creates a binary project; the --lib parameter has to be used when creating a library project. Let's try it out by typing cargo new imgtool and taking a look at the directory structure it creates:

Cargo has created ...