Cannot build with external crates dependencies

[atilag]

If I understood correctly, external crates referenced in the Cargo.toml files are still not supported, right? So there's no way at the moment to build something that depends on external crates, am I right?

[acmcarther]

There's not really a way currently .... or at least not one that has feature parity with Cargo itself. I've been making efforts to facilitate automatic BUILD generation from Cargo.toml -- but I'm doubtful that there will ever be the sort of "drop a Cargo.toml here and get going" experience that you might be imagining.

The above hacky project doesn't support many usecases, one of which is anything that depends on a pkg-config dependency. That includes openssl, and half of crates.io that depends on it, so don't get too excited yet.

Still, I'm working on it!

EDIT: I don't speak for any bazel developers (or project maintainers), by the way.

[acmcarther]

A "drop and go" sort of workflow is supported with google/cargo-raze if you use the remote mode.

Toml would need to add a snippet like this:

[raze]
genmode = "Remote"

This has some deficiencies. For now, I'll close this issue as "not actionable". Feel free to reopen (or file a new issue here or @ cargo-raze) if you have any more specific issues.