3 Cargo downloads your Rust project’s dependencies and compiles your project.
5 Learn more at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/
9 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.com/rust-lang/cargo.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.com/rust-lang/cargo)
10 [![Build Status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/github/rust-lang/cargo?branch=master&svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/rust-lang-libs/cargo)
12 Code documentation: https://docs.rs/cargo/
16 Cargo is distributed by default with Rust, so if you've got `rustc` installed
17 locally you probably also have `cargo` installed locally.
19 ## Compiling from Source
21 Cargo requires the following tools and packages to build:
26 * OpenSSL headers (only for Unix, this is the `libssl-dev` package on ubuntu)
29 First, you'll want to check out this repository
32 git clone https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo
36 With `cargo` already installed, you can simply run:
42 ## Adding new subcommands to Cargo
44 Cargo is designed to be extensible with new subcommands without having to modify
45 Cargo itself. See [the Wiki page][third-party-subcommands] for more details and
46 a list of known community-developed subcommands.
48 [third-party-subcommands]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/wiki/Third-party-cargo-subcommands
53 Cargo releases coincide with Rust releases.
54 High level release notes are available as part of [Rust's release notes][rel].
55 Detailed release notes are available in this repo at [CHANGELOG.md].
57 [rel]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/RELEASES.md
58 [CHANGELOG.md]: CHANGELOG.md
62 Found a bug? We'd love to know about it!
64 Please report all issues on the GitHub [issue tracker][issues].
66 [issues]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues
70 See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md). You may also find the architecture
71 documentation useful ([ARCHITECTURE.md](ARCHITECTURE.md)).
75 Cargo is primarily distributed under the terms of both the MIT license
76 and the Apache License (Version 2.0).
78 See LICENSE-APACHE and LICENSE-MIT for details.
80 ### Third party software
82 This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project
83 for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (https://www.openssl.org/).
85 In binary form, this product includes software that is licensed under the
86 terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, with a linking exception,
87 which can be obtained from the [upstream repository][1].
89 See LICENSE-THIRD-PARTY for details.
91 [1]: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2