UseDeclaration cannot find struct in the crate root - rust

Question

I start with the cargo new tst. Then in the src/lib.rs I have:
pub struct Config {}
And src/main.rs looks like the following:
use crate::Config;
fn main() {}
This however does not compile:
> cargo run
Compiling tst v0.1.0 (/home/*/rust/book/tst)
error[E0432]: unresolved import `crate::Config`
--> src/main.rs:1:5
|
1 | use crate::Config;
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ no `Config` in the root
For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0432`.
error: could not compile `tst` due to previous error
But if I replace crate:: with the name of the crate like so:
use tst::Config;
fn main() {}
Then it just work:
> cargo run
Compiling tst v0.1.0 (/home/*/rust/book/tst)
warning: unused import: `tst::Config`
--> src/main.rs:1:5
|
1 | use tst::Config;
| ^^^^^^^^^^^
|
= note: `#[warn(unused_imports)]` on by default
warning: `tst` (bin "tst") generated 1 warning
Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.25s
Running `target/debug/tst`
The output for rustc --explain E0432 has the following quote, which if I understand it correctly means, that I can either use the name of a crate or simply crate:::
In Rust 2018, paths in use statements are relative to the current module
unless they begin with the name of a crate or a literal crate::, in which
case they start from the crate root. As in Rust 2015 code, the self:: and
super:: prefixes refer to the current and parent modules respectively.
Am I doing something wrong in here? Is there a way to use code from lib.rs without hardcoding the name of the crate?
> rustc --version
rustc 1.56.1 (Arch Linux rust 1:1.56.1-3)
> cat Cargo.toml
[package]
name = "tst"
version = "0.1.0"
edition = "2021"
# See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
[dependencies]

Answer 1

There is no way to refer to “the library crate in my package”; you must refer to it by its name. The Rust compiler doesn't (currently) know anything about other crates that happen to be in the same Cargo package; it just compiles one crate at a time.
In order for this to change, you would need to write a Rust RFC, which would need to include a description of why it would be valuable to have this feature — probably a stronger argument than “it would be less hardcoded”, since main depending on the library is almost certainly going to use library-specific names anyway, so the name of the library itself is a minor issue (unless, I suppose, you're creating many packages from a common template).