Cargo Virtual Environment

A virtual environment tool similar to Python's virtual environments.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
  • Custom toolchain
  • IDE Support
    • IntelliJ Idea

Installation

pip install cargo-venv

Usage

Leveraging Cargo's built-in command mechanism, you can simply call the following command to get a virtual environment called venv.

cargo venv

However, since this is a Python script, you can specify a different name by calling:

cargo-venv custom-name

Custom toolchain

You can also specify a custom toolchain rather than always depend on the latest. If a rust-toolchain file is discovered in your project, that version will be used to install the toolchain inside your virtual environment.

IDE Support

IntelliJ Idea

Under Settings > Languages and Frameworks > Rust set the following fields to these values:

Toolchain Location

<venv-path>/.rustup/toolchains/<toolchain-version>/bin

Standard library

<venv-path>/.rustup/toolchains/<toolchain-version>/lib/rustlib/src/rust