Cargo: Passing a RUSTFLAGS and specifying a target

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#1

Hi folks,

I’m not sure if there’s a better place to ask, but happy to re-ask there if there’s a better place. I’m attempting to use cargo to do something like

RUSTFLAGS='--cfg procmacro2_semver_exempt' cargo +nightly build --verbose --target wasm32-unknown-unknown

A dependency of mine must be compiled with the procmacro2_semver_exempt flag. However, if I run the above, that flag gets lost.

If I run

RUSTFLAGS='--cfg procmacro2_semver_exempt --target wasm32-unknown-unknown' cargo +nightly build --verbose

It complains that

error: failed to run `rustc` to learn about target-specific information

Caused by:
  process didn't exit successfully: `rustc - --crate-name ___ --print=file-names --cfg procmacro2_semver_exempt --target wasm32-unknown-unknown --target x86_64-apple-darwin --crate-type bin --crate-type rlib --crate-type dylib --crate-type cdylib --crate-type staticlib --crate-type proc-macro` (exit code: 101)
--- stderr
error: Option 'target' given more than once

Is there any way pass the RUSTFLAGS and also specify a target? Any help is appreciated!

Thank you!
Robert

Edit: From the cargo book, it seems like using RUSTFLAGS the way I did should work:

RUSTFLAGS — A space-separated list of custom flags to pass to all compiler invocations that Cargo performs. In contrast with cargo rustc, this is useful for passing a flag to all compiler instances.

Edit2: This also doesn’t appear to work with .cargo/config :confused:

Edit3: :sob: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/4423

#2

Can’t you just update your Cargo.toml to explicitly use the procmacro2_semver_exempt feature? That means you’d write something like some-library = { version = "1.2.3", features = ["procmacro2_semver_exempt "] } under the [dependencies] table (manifest docs).