Here is my directory structure:
lowks@lowkster ~/src/rustlang/gettingrusty $ tree .
.
├── Cargo.lock
├── Cargo.toml
├── foo.txt
├── src
│ ├── boolean_example.rs
│ ├── function_goodbye_world.rs
│ ├── listdir.rs
│ ├── looping.rs
│ ├── main.rs
│ ├── pattern_match.rs
│ └── write_to_file.rs
└── target
├── build
├── deps
├── examples
├── gettingrusty
└── native
6 directories, 11 files
When I run 'cargo build', it seems to only build main.rs
. How should I change Cargo.toml to build the rest of the files too?
The Rust compiler compiles all the files at the same time to build a crate, which is either an executable or a library. To add files to your crate, add mod
items to your crate root (here, main.rs) or to other modules:
mod boolean_example;
mod function_goodbye_world;
mod listdir;
mod looping;
mod pattern_match;
mod write_to_file;
To access items defined in another module from your crate root, you must qualify that item with the module name. For example, if you have a function named foo
in module looping
, you must refer to it as looping::foo
.
You can also add use
statements to import names in the module's scope. For example, if you add use looping::foo;
, then you can just use foo
to refer to looping::foo
.
For more information, see Separating Modules into Different Files in The Rust Programming Language.