A GUI for Cargo

This is a project to make a GUI for cargo, built using Slint:

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Installation

Cargo UI can be installed from crates.io:

cargo install cargo-ui

Alternatively, you can download one of our pre-built binaries for Linux or Windows:

1. Open https://github.com/slint-ui/cargo-ui/releases
2. Click on the latest release
3. From "Assets" download either cargo-ui-linux.tar.gz for a Linux x86-64 binary or cargo-ui-windows.zip for a Windows x86-64 binary.
4. Uncompress the downloaded archive and run cargo-ui/cargo-ui.exe or place the uncompressed directory into your PATH.

Usage

cargo ui

Prerequisites

In addition to a working cargo and Rust installation, a few other tools or libraries are needed:

Linux:

• fontconfig library (libfontconfig-dev on debian based distributions)
• xcb library (libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxkbcommon-dev on debian based distributions)

Windows:

• A working C compiler (such as MSVC)

macOS:

• "Xcode Command Line Tools" need to be installed: xcode-select --install

For the native style: (optional)

• The native style requires Qt >= 5.15, see https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/blob/master/docs/install_qt.md. If Qt is not present while building, the fluent style will be used as a fallback.

Vision

Some ideas for features:

• Choose the binary to run or the lib to build or the test to run
• Display the errors in a nice way
• Select the debug or release mode
• Select the toolchain (nightly, stable, ...)
• Maybe integrate with rustup to update the toolchain or install new one
• See the dependencies as an expendable tree
• Show duplicated dependencies
• Show outdated dependencies, with button to easily update
• Ability to easily add dependency (by searching the crates.io index)
• Edit features of dependencies from a list.
• Show asm, llvm-ir, ...
• Show build progress and be able to cancel the build
• Edit other metadata of the the Cargo.toml (edition, author, ...)
• Manage workspaces and do batch edit of the metadata on all members
• Have a "playground" tab which allow to easily try rust code
• A publish tab which publishes all the crates in the workspace in the right order
• Double-click on a Cargo.toml file would also run cargo-ui.
• ...

License

The source code of Cargo UI is available under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0). (See LICENSE-APACHE and LICENSE-MIT for details.)

However, because of the use of GPL dependencies, cargo-ui, as a whole, is licensed under the terms of the GPLv3 (See LICENSE-GPL)