A code generator to reduce repetitive tasks and build high-quality Rust libraries.
Part of the Mini Functions family of libraries.
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LibMake is a tool designed to quickly help creating high-quality Rust libraries by generating a set of pre-filled and pre-defined templated files. This opinionated boilerplate scaffolding tool aims to greatly reduce development time and minimizes repetitive tasks, allowing you to focus on your business logic while enforcing standards, best practices, consistency, and providing style guides for your library.
With LibMake, you can easily generate a new Rust library code base structure with all the necessary files, layouts, build configurations, code, tests, benchmarks, documentation, and much more in a matter of seconds.
The library is designed to be used as a command-line tool. It is available on Crates.io and Lib.rs.
- LibMake
LibMake offers the following features and benefits:
- Simplicity: Create Rust libraries effortlessly via CLI or configuration files in CSV, JSON, TOML, or YAML.
- Speed: Instantly scaffold new libraries with a standard structure and essential boilerplate.
- Automation: Generate predefined GitHub Actions workflows for streamlined development and testing.
- Foundation: Jumpstart your project with automatically generated functions, methods, and macros.
- Standards: Embrace best practices from the start with starter documentation, tests, and benchmarks.
These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.
You will need Rust and Cargo installed on your system. If you don't have them installed, you can install them from the official Rust website.
It takes just a few seconds to get up and running with LibMake.
Once you have the Rust toolchain installed, you can install LibMake
using the following command:
cargo install libmakeYou can then run the help command to see the available options:
libmake --helpThe minimum supported Rust toolchain version is currently Rust 1.60 or later (stable).
LibMake is supported and has been tested on the following platforms:
Rust Tier 1 targets are officially supported and guaranteed to work.
| Operating System | Target | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ✅ | Linux | aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu | 64-bit Linux systems on ARM architecture |
| ✅ | Linux | i686-unknown-linux-gnu | 32-bit Linux (kernel 3.2+, glibc 2.17+) |
| ✅ | Linux | x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu | 64-bit Linux (kernel 2.6.32+, glibc 2.11+) |
| ✅ | macOS | x86_64-apple-darwin | 64-bit macOS (10.7 Lion or later) |
| ✅ | Windows | i686-pc-windows-gnu | 32-bit Windows (7 or later) |
| ✅ | Windows | i686-pc-windows-msvc | 32-bit Windows (7 or later) |
| ✅ | Windows | x86_64-pc-windows-gnu | 64-bit Windows (7 or later) |
| ✅ | Windows | x86_64-pc-windows-msvc | 64-bit Windows (7 or later) |
Rust Tier 2 targets are supported for building, but not necessarily running.
| Operating System | Target | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ✅ | Linux | aarch64-unknown-linux-musl | 64-bit Linux systems on ARM architecture |
| ✅ | Linux | arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi | ARMv6 Linux (kernel 3.2, glibc 2.17) |
| ✅ | Linux | arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf | ARMv7 Linux, hardfloat (kernel 3.2, glibc 2.17) |
| ✅ | Linux | armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf | ARMv7 Linux, hardfloat (kernel 3.2, glibc 2.17) |
| ✅ | macOS | aarch64-apple-darwin | 64-bit macOS (10.7 Lion or later) |
| ✅ | Windows | aarch64-pc-windows-msvc | 64-bit Windows (7 or later) |
The GitHub Actions shows the platforms in which the LibMake
library tests are run.
Should you encounter any issues with the library on any of the above platforms, please report a bug. We will do our best to resolve the issue as soon as possible. If you would like to contribute to help us to support additional platforms, please submit a pull request.
Info: Do check out our website for more information. You can find our documentation on docs.rs, lib.rs and crates.io.
LibMake provides a command-line interface to generate a new library project. There are a few options available to help you get started.
The following command generates a library template from a CSV file.
Have a look at the tests/data/mylibrary.csv file for an example and
feel free to use it for your own library as a template.
libmake file --csv tests/data/mylibrary.csvor locally if you have cloned the repository:
cargo run -- file --csv tests/data/mylibrary.csvThe following command generates a library template from an INI file.
Have a look at the tests/data/mylibrary.ini file for an example and
feel free to use it for your own library as a template.
libmake file --ini tests/data/mylibrary.inior locally if you have cloned the repository:
cargo run -- file --ini tests/data/mylibrary.iniThe following command generates a library template from a JSON file.
Have a look at the tests/data/mylibrary.json file for an example and
feel free to use it for your own library as a template.
libmake file --json tests/data/mylibrary.jsonor locally if you have cloned the repository:
cargo run -- file --json tests/data/mylibrary.jsonThe following command generates a library template from a TOML file.
Have a look at the tests/data/mylibrary.toml file for an example and
feel free to use it for your own library as a template.
libmake file --toml tests/data/mylibrary.tomlor locally if you have cloned the repository:
cargo run -- file --toml tests/data/mylibrary.tomlThe following command generates a library template from a YAML file.
Have a look at the tests/data/mylibrary.yaml file for an example and
feel free to use it for your own library as a template.
libmake file --yaml tests/data/mylibrary.yamlor locally if you have cloned the repository:
cargo run -- file --yaml tests/data/mylibrary.yamlThe following command generates a library template using the command-line interface.
libmake manual\
--author "John Smith" \
--build "build.rs" \
--categories "['category 1', 'category 2', 'category 3']" \
--description "A Rust library for doing cool things" \
--documentation "https://docs.rs/my_library" \
--edition "2021" \
--email "[email protected]" \
--homepage "https://my_library.rs" \
--keywords "['rust', 'library', 'cool']" \
--license "MIT" \
--name "my_library" \
--output "my_library" \
--readme "README.md" \
--repository "https://github.com/example/my_library" \
--rustversion "1.60" \
--version "0.1.0" \
--website "https://example.com/john-smith"or locally if you have cloned the repository:
cargo run -- manual --author "John Smith" \
--build "build.rs" \
--categories "['category 1', 'category 2', 'category 3']" \
--description "A Rust library for doing cool things" \
--documentation "https://docs.rs/my_library" \
--edition "2021" \
--email "[email protected]" \
--homepage "https://my_library.rs" \
--keywords "['rust', 'library', 'cool']" \
--license "MIT" \
--name "my_library" \
--output "my_library" \
--readme "README.md" \
--repository "https://github.com/example/my_library" \
--rustversion "1.60" \
--version "0.1.0" \
--website "https://example.com/john-smith"To get started with LibMake, you can use the examples provided in the examples directory of the project.
To run the examples, clone the repository and run the following command in your terminal from the project root directory.
| Example | Description | Command |
|---|---|---|
generate_from_args |
Generates a library template using the command-line interface. | cargo run --example generate_from_args |
generate_from_config |
Generates a library template from a configuration file. | cargo run --example generate_from_config |
generate_from_csv |
Generates a library template from a CSV file. | cargo run --example generate_from_csv |
generate_from_ini |
Generates a library template from an INI file. | cargo run --example generate_from_ini |
generate_from_json |
Generates a library template from a JSON file. | cargo run --example generate_from_json |
generate_from_toml |
Generates a library template from a TOML file. | cargo run --example generate_from_toml |
generate_from_yaml |
Generates a library template from a YAML file. | cargo run --example generate_from_yaml |
For transparency into our release cycle and in striving to maintain
backward compatibility, libmake follows semantic versioning.
The project is licensed under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0).
We welcome all people who want to contribute. Please see the contributing instructions for more information.
Contributions in any form (issues, pull requests, etc.) to this project must adhere to the Rust's Code of Conduct.
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
A big thank you to all the awesome contributors of libmake for their help and support. A special thank you goes to the Rust Reddit community for providing a lot of useful suggestions on how to improve this project.