The basic Rust tooling is composed of three programs:
- cargo: The Rust package manager
- rustc: The Rust compiler
- rustup: The Rust toolchain manager
Most users will never touch (or even see) rustc directly, but will usually use rustup to install it and then let cargo orchestrate the compilation.
Running cargo without any arguments reveals the subcommands it provides:
$ cargo
Rust's package manager
USAGE:
cargo [OPTIONS] [SUBCOMMAND]
OPTIONS:
-V, --version Print version info and exit
--list List installed commands
--explain <CODE> Run `rustc --explain CODE`
-v, --verbose Use verbose output (-vv very verbose/build.rs output)
-q, --quiet No output printed to stdout
--color <WHEN> Coloring: auto, always, never
--frozen Require Cargo.lock and cache are...
