I'm starting a project where I'll have at least two crates, one A depending on the other B. The quirck here is that the crate B will be no_std and the heap usage will be forbidden.
In this scenario the crate A will need to pass some values to B at compilation time, for B to dimension the structures properly.
Is there a way to pass configuration parameters to a library dependency?. I'm thinking about collecting all the parameters inside an xml file at a known location (maybe using envvars) which the build.rs of the B crate can read and configure at compile time.
While I think that would work I hope there is a better way like cargo features but with key-value pairs.
For the dimensioning I was thinking about generating code from build.rs, and placing the result in the target folder, visible to the src that will be compiled. IDK if this is possible though
The only requirement is to use stable Rust for this.
Thanks. I'll analyze the fit of const-generics in my use case. Anyhow, the question is more open/ not constrained to defining sizes but also other things like new datatypes, factories, etc
Well, generally this kind of pattern should be avoided. Other than feature flags and target platform downstream users should not really be able to affect the compilation of the upstream crates.
I'm noticing an issue with const generics. i'll be passing -lots- of parameters to crate B, the strategy would be having defaults for the parameters not explictly defined in an attempt to reduce the clog