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Robbert van der Helm 8e0597b780 Move the xtask binary to a library
So you can use it in your own projects with minimal copying and pasting.
2022-03-02 10:02:03 +01:00

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# NIH-plug: bundler and other utilities
This is NIH-plug's `cargo xtask` command, but as a library. This way you can use
it in your own projects without forking this repo or copying the binary into
your own repo. This is necessary until Cargo supports [running binaries from
dependencies directly](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3168).
To use this, add an `xtask` binary to your project using `cargo new --bin xtask`
and add it to the Cargo workspace in your repository's main `Cargo.toml` file:
```toml
# Cargo.toml
[workspace]
members = ["xtask"]
```
Then add `nih_plug_xtask` to your new xtask package's dependencies:
```toml
# xtask/Cargo.toml
[dependencies]
nih_plug_xtask = { git = "https://github.com/robbert-vdh/nih-plug" }
```
Call `nih_plug_xtask`'s main function own xtask binary:
```rust
# xtask/src/main.rs
fn main() -> nih_plug_xtask::Result<()> {
nih_plug_xtask::main()
}
```
And finally create a `.cargo/config` file in your repository and add a Cargo
alias so you can invoke the binary with `cargo xtask`:
```toml
# .cargo/config
[alias]
xtask = "run --package xtask --release --"
```