Help with crates and packages

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I'm currently following the rust book, but I'm having difficulty in the crates part, for example, in the minigrep project, I create a new project "cargo new minigrep", then I enter the project "cd minigrep", my problem is right now to create a library, I create one inside the project "cargo new Library --lib" but then I can't import it to my project that contains main, inside it I have an object called "Config", the book says to use it just in the main module put "use minigrep::Config;" but it doesn't work, could someone help me? sorry for the rubbish and mistakes, english is not my native language.

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You have created a separate package inside your minigrep package.

Not to worry though, there is an easy fix.

  • Delete the Library folder.

  • Make a library which is part of the minigrep project.
    All you need is a file named lib.rs next to main.rs in the same directory.

lib.rs will contain your Config struct.

Hope that helps!

If you're curious why:

A cargo.toml is associated with a package, which is why it has [package] at the top. A package can have 0-1 library and 0-n binary crates, minimum 1.

The lib.rs and main.rs are separate crates! lib.rs contains your library crate and main.rs is your (main) binary crate.

cargo new creates a package.

https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/3380

I think there are easier to understand sources for this information, but I can't find them right now!

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thanks dude <3

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