How can I set default build target for Cargo?

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antono picture antono · Mar 23, 2018 · Viewed 12.8k times · Source

I tried to make 'Hello World' in Rust using this tutorial, but the build command is a bit verbose:

cargo +nightly build --target wasm32-unknown-unknown --release

Is it possible to set the default target for cargo build?

Answer

mexus picture mexus · Mar 23, 2018

You could use a Cargo configuration file to specify a default target-triple for your project. In your project's root, create a .cargo directory and a config file in it with the following contents:

[build]
target = "wasm32-unknown-unknown"

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