I create declarative development environments for Rust projects with a flake based around the oxalica rust overlay.
Recently I’ve come across a number of packages/frameworks in the rust ecosystem which come with extra tooling that they suggest be provided with cargo install
. How should I go about managing such tools in a declarative way?
For example, the Dioxus Getting Started guide suggests
cargo install dioxus-cli@0.5.0-alpha.0
rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown
cargo add dioxus@0.5.0-alpha.0 --features web
No. 2 can be provided declaratively by including it in the targets
in the oxalica overlay, while no. 3 is just a convenient front-end for adding a declaration to Cargo.toml
. But what would be a declarative way of achieving no. 1?
(In the case, of dioxus-cli
, it is present in nixpkgs, but only in an older version.)