Can you use a rust binary crate as a library?

• fd

  172 31,495 8.8 Rust

  A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

I'd like to use fd's features in a program I am writing. Is it possible to use a crate with a main.rs and no lib.rs as a library? Is there some trick I can do to make that work?

• Cargo

  263 11,958 10.0 Rust

  The Rust package manager

  

Crates like bindgen work around #1982 still being unsolved by making the feature for the CLI a default feature and expecting things which depend on the library to opt out of default features.

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• rfcs

  666 5,700 9.8 Markdown

  RFCs for changes to Rust

  

As it would be a change to Cargo.toml, it requires an RFC and there's currently one under discussion so the first thing you'd want to do is look through what's been said there.

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