Create an empty project:

$ xmake create -l rust -t console test

xmake.lua

add_rules("mode.debug", "mode.release")

target("test")
    set_kind("binary")
    add_files("src/main.rs")

For more examples, see: Rust Examples

Add cargo package dependences

example: https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake/tree/dev/tests/projects/rust/cargo_deps

add_rules("mode.release", "mode.debug")
add_requires("cargo::base64 0.13.0")
add_requires("cargo::flate2 1.0.17", {configs = {features = "zlib"}})

target("test")
    set_kind("binary")
    add_files("src/main.rs")
    add_packages("cargo::base64", "cargo::flate2")

Integrating Cargo.toml dependency packages

Integrating dependencies directly using add_requires("cargo::base64 0.13.0") above has a problem.

If there are a lot of dependencies and several dependencies all depend on the same child dependencies, then there will be a redefinition problem, so if we use the full Cargo.toml to manage the dependencies we won't have this problem.

For example

add_rules("mode.release", "mode.debug")
add_requires("cargo::test", {configs = {cargo_toml = path.join(os.projectdir(), "Cargo.toml")}})

target("test")
    set_kind("binary")
    add_files("src/main.rs")
    add_packages("cargo::test")

For a complete example see: cargo_deps_with_toml

Use cxxbridge to call rust in c++

example: https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake/tree/dev/tests/projects/rust/cxx_call_rust_library

add_rules("mode.debug", "mode.release")

add_requires("cargo::cxx 1.0")

target("foo")
    set_kind("static")
    add_files("src/foo.rs")
    set_values("rust.cratetype", "staticlib")
    add_packages("cargo::cxx")

target("test")
    set_kind("binary")
    add_rules("rust.cxxbridge")
    add_deps("foo")
    add_files("src/main.cc")
    add_files("src/bridge.rsx")

foo.rs

#[cxx::bridge]
mod foo {
    extern "Rust" {
        fn add(a: i32, b: i32) -> i32;
    }
}

pub fn add(a: i32, b: i32) -> i32 {
    return a + b;
}

bridge interface file in c++, bridge.rsx

#[cxx::bridge]
mod foo {
    extern "Rust" {
        fn add(a: i32, b: i32) -> i32;
    }
}

main.cc

#include <stdio.h>
#include "bridge.rs.h"

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
    printf("add(1, 2) == %d\n", add(1, 2));
    return 0;
}

Call c++ in rust

example: https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake/tree/dev/tests/projects/rust/rust_call_cxx_library

add_rules("mode.debug", "mode.release")

target("foo")
    set_kind("static")
    add_files("src/foo.cc")

target("test")
    set_kind("binary")
    add_deps("foo")
    add_files("src/main.rs")

main.rs

extern "C" {
	fn add(a: i32, b: i32) -> i32;
}

fn main() {
    unsafe {
	    println!("add(1, 2) = {}", add(1, 2));
    }
}

foo.cc

extern "C" int add(int a, int b) {
    return a + b;
}