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by steveklabnik 159 days ago
Rust crates can run arbitrary code at build time: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/build-scripts.html
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rafram 158 days ago
> Build scripts communicate with Cargo by printing to stdout.

Oh lord.

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ComputerGuru 158 days ago
Wrote an entire crate to clean up that mess (and provide traditional autoconf-ish features for build.rs): https://crates.io/crates/rsconf
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pxc 159 days ago
Geez, thank you.
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