CARGO-PUBLISH(1)

📦 version 1.77.2, in ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

💖 cargo-publish(1) — the "put ur crate on the internet" command 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual entry for cargo-publish and lemme tell u, this one is a whole moment. it's the glow-up ritual where ur lil local package becomes a Real Published Crate. iconic behavior only.

✨ NAME ✨

cargo-publish — Upload a package to the registry 🚀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

cargo publish [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea 🫖 — this command builds a distributable, compressed .crate file out of the source code of the package sitting in the current directory, and then uploads that baby straight to a registry. the default registry is <https://crates.io>. periodt.

it does this in a few lil steps, in order:

  1. Performs a few checks, including:
    • Checks the package.publish key in the manifest for restrictions on which registries you are allowed to publish to.
  2. Create a .crate file by following the steps in cargo-package(1).
  3. Upload the crate to the registry. The server will perform additional checks on the crate.
  4. The client will poll waiting for the package to appear in the index, and may timeout. In that case, you will need to check for completion manually. This timeout does not affect the upload.
ngl step 4 is the "sent the text now we wait" part of publishing 😭 the timeout does not affect the upload, so don't panic-refresh, bestie.

this command requires you to be authenticated — either with the --token option or by using cargo-login(1).

See the reference <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/publishing.html> for more details about packaging and publishing.

👑 OPTIONS 👑

💅 Publish Options

  • --dry-run — Perform all checks without uploading.
  • --token token — API token to use when authenticating. This overrides the token stored in the credentials file (which is created by cargo-login(1)).

Cargo config <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html> environment variables can be used to override the tokens stored in the credentials file. The token for crates.io may be specified with the CARGO_REGISTRY_TOKEN environment variable. Tokens for other registries may be specified with environment variables of the form CARGO_REGISTRIES_NAME_TOKEN where NAME is the name of the registry in all capital letters.

🎀 Package Selection

By default, the package in the current working directory is selected. The -p flag can be used to choose a different package in a workspace.

  • -p spec, --package spec — The package to publish. See cargo-pkgid(1) for the SPEC format.

🌈 Compilation Options

  • --target triple — Publish for the given architecture. The default is the host architecture. The general format of the triple is <arch><sub>-<vendor>-<sys>-<abi>. Run rustc --print target-list for a list of supported targets. This flag may be specified multiple times.

This may also be specified with the build.target config value <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html>.

Note that specifying this flag makes Cargo run in a different mode where the target artifacts are placed in a separate directory. See the build cache <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/guide/build-cache.html> documentation for more details.

  • --target-dir directory — Directory for all generated artifacts and intermediate files. May also be specified with the CARGO_TARGET_DIR environment variable, or the build.target-dir config value <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html>. Defaults to target in the root of the workspace.

🧚 Feature Selection

The feature flags allow you to control which features are enabled. When no feature options are given, the default feature is activated for every selected package.

See the features documentation <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/features.html#command-line-feature-options> for more details.

  • -F features, --features features — Space or comma separated list of features to activate. Features of workspace members may be enabled with package-name/feature-name syntax. This flag may be specified multiple times, which enables all specified features.
  • --all-features — Activate all available features of all selected packages.
  • --no-default-features — Do not activate the default feature of the selected packages.

🍓 Manifest Options

  • --manifest-path path — Path to the Cargo.toml file. By default, Cargo searches for the Cargo.toml file in the current directory or any parent directory.
  • --frozen, --locked — Either of these flags requires that the Cargo.lock file is up-to-date. If the lock file is missing, or it needs to be updated, Cargo will exit with an error. The --frozen flag also prevents Cargo from attempting to access the network to determine if it is out-of-date.

These may be used in environments where you want to assert that the Cargo.lock file is up-to-date (such as a CI build) or want to avoid network access.

  • --offline — Prevents Cargo from accessing the network for any reason. Without this flag, Cargo will stop with an error if it needs to access the network and the network is not available. With this flag, Cargo will attempt to proceed without the network if possible.
beware, bestie — this may result in different dependency resolution than online mode. Cargo will restrict itself to crates that are downloaded locally, even if there might be a newer version as indicated in the local copy of the index. See the cargo-fetch(1) command to download dependencies before going offline.

May also be specified with the net.offline config value <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html>.

🔥 Miscellaneous Options

  • -j N, --jobs N — Number of parallel jobs to run. May also be specified with the build.jobs config value <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html>. Defaults to the number of logical CPUs. If negative, it sets the maximum number of parallel jobs to the number of logical CPUs plus provided value. If a string default is provided, it sets the value back to defaults. Should not be 0.
  • --keep-going — Build as many crates in the dependency graph as possible, rather than aborting the build on the first one that fails to build.

For example if the current package depends on dependencies fails and works, one of which fails to build, cargo publish -j1 may or may not build the one that succeeds (depending on which one of the two builds Cargo picked to run first), whereas cargo publish -j1 --keep-going would definitely run both builds, even if the one run first fails.

⭐ Display Options

  • -v, --verbose — Use verbose output. May be specified twice for "very verbose" output which includes extra output such as dependency warnings and build script output. May also be specified with the term.verbose config value <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html>.
  • -q, --quiet — Do not print cargo log messages. May also be specified with the term.quiet config value <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html>.
  • --color when — Control when colored output is used. Valid values:
    • auto (default): Automatically detect if color support is available on the terminal.
    • always: Always display colors.
    • never: Never display colors.

May also be specified with the term.color config value <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html>.

💜 Common Options

  • +toolchain — If Cargo has been installed with rustup, and the first argument to cargo begins with +, it will be interpreted as a rustup toolchain name (such as +stable or +nightly). See the rustup documentation <https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup/overrides.html> for more information about how toolchain overrides work.
  • --config KEY=VALUE or PATH — Overrides a Cargo configuration value. The argument should be in TOML syntax of KEY=VALUE, or provided as a path to an extra configuration file. This flag may be specified multiple times. See the command-line overrides section <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html#command-line-overrides> for more information.
  • -C PATH — Changes the current working directory before executing any specified operations. This affects things like where cargo looks by default for the project manifest (Cargo.toml), as well as the directories searched for discovering .cargo/config.toml, for example. This option must appear before the command name, for example cargo -C path/to/my-project build.
this option is only available on the nightly channel <https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/appendix-07-nightly-rust.html> and requires the -Z unstable-options flag to enable (see #10098 <https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/10098>). so like, main character energy but you gotta be on nightly for it 💀
  • -h, --help — Prints help information.
  • -Z flag — Unstable (nightly-only) flags to Cargo. Run cargo -Z help for details.

🌱 ENVIRONMENT 🌱

See the reference <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/environment-variables.html> for details on environment variables that Cargo reads.

🫶 EXIT STATUS 🫶

  • 0: Cargo succeeded.
  • 101: Cargo failed to complete.

🌟 EXAMPLES 🌟

  1. Publish the current package:
cargo publish

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

cargo(1), cargo-package(1), cargo-login(1)

and that's the whole page, bestie — no cap, u now know how to yeet a crate into the world 💅✨ this was the CARGO-PUBLISH(1) page from the General Commands Manual, and yeah the footer is literally just the same name again because cargo said "no notes, the title speaks for itself." slay. 🎀🦋 go publish something iconic.

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