My latest blog post is over at my employer’s blog post and talks about the work I’ve done to get system dependency management integrated into cargo-dist, an open source release management tool for Rust. The new release lets users specify non-Rust dependencies in Cargo.toml using a Cargo-like syntax and also provides a detailed report on the resulting binary’s dynamic linkage. Here’s a sample of the dependency syntax:

[workspace.metadata.dist.dependencies.homebrew]
cmake = { targets = ["x86_64-apple-darwin"] }
libcue = { version = "2.2.1", targets = ["x86_64-apple-darwin"] }

[workspace.metadata.dist.dependencies.apt]
cmake = '*'
libcue-dev = { version = "2.2.1-2" }

[workspace.metadata.dist.dependencies.chocolatey]
lftp = '*'
cmake = '3.27.6'

Go read the blog post to find out more!