Guide

The cargo-dist Guide is the "beginner" documentation that walks you through simple usage and then introduces more complex situations as you go. More advanced documentation can be found in "concepts".

If you have a Cargo Workspace with a single Cargo package that cargo install works for, and just want zips containing prebuilt binaries for the major desktop platforms, that should Just Work as described in the Way-Too-Quickstart. Things get more complicated if you want to:

• have more packages in your Cargo Workspace (libraries, multiple binaries, ...)
• have additional steps in your build (configure the system, add files, ...)
• build various kinds of installers (curl-sh scripts, npm packages, msi, ...)

Gonna be blunt and say that cargo-dist is still in early days and we still need to implement a lot of stuff to better support all the things people want to do with Shippable Builds. If what you want to do doesn't seem properly supported and we don't have an issue for it, absolutely file one so we can hash it out!

The guide will start by explaining the simple case, and then explain the more complicated cases.