Rust Programming – Command Basics – Cheat Sheet Part 1

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Installation, Updating, and Uninstalling

Linux or macOS

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

also for macOS

xcode-select --install

For Windows, go to https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install and follow the instructions. You would also need to install MSVC build tools for Visual Studio from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/. “Desktop Development with C++”, Windows 10/11 SDK, and your Language pack component.

Once Rust is installed you can check the rust version

rustc --version

Check cargo version

cargo --version

Updating to a newly released version

rustup update

Uninstalling Rust and rustup

rustup self uninstall

Open Rust local copy of the documentation

rustup doc

Create a new progject

cargo new hello_cargo

Cargo running a cargo project

cargo build

This command creates an executable file in target/debug/ so run the executable file from your terminal.

You can also run the command to run the project directory without producing a executable

cargo run

To quickly check if your code compiles

cargo check

To compile your project with optimization for release run the command

cargo build --release