"entry point could not be located" when running program on Windows - rust

I wrote a program to parse some filenames in Rust using the standard Regex crate. The program runs fine on Linux, but when I tried to compile and run it on Windows, I get some kind of DLL error. I don't really understand what is going on with this, but it's all I have to go on.
This is the compiler version that I'm using:
F:\Coding\rust-shutterstock-deduper\target (master)
λ rustc --version
rustc 1.0.0-nightly (3ef8ff1f8 2015-02-12 00:38:24 +0000)
This is the program that I'm trying to run:
#![feature(plugin)]
#![plugin(regex_macros)]
extern crate regex_macros;
extern crate regex;
fn main() {
let x = regex!(".*");
}
And my Cargo.toml file:
[package]
name = "my_package"
version = "0.0.1"
authors = ["Nate Mara <natemara#gmail.com>"]
[dependencies]
regex = "0.1.14"
regex_macros = "0.1.8"
Are there compiler flags that I should be passing in, or do I need to run this in a special way, or... what am I doing wrong here? I'm just running with cargo run

Add #[no_link] to your code:
#![plugin(regex_macros)]
#[no_link]
extern crate regex_macros;
Right now, plugins are crates, which means they get linked in. The regex_macros crate should tell you to add no_link, but this is a temporary workaround for a Rust issue. However, it looks like this is in the process of being fixed.

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Unable to use rust crates

I'm new to rust. I'm following a getting started tutorial that imports the crate random-number but when running the code I'm getting the error can't find crate for 'random_number'. What am I doing wrong?
~/Cargo.toml:
[package]
name = "test"
version = "0.0.1"
edition = "2021"
[dependencies]
random-number = "0.1.8"
~/src/main.rs:
extern crate random_number;
use random_number::random;
fn main() {
let num: i8 = random!(..);
println!("{}", num);
}
rustc is not meant to be used directly. It is the compiler that can compile a .rs file, but it doesn't have any dependency manager attached to it. So if you decide to use rustc directly, you need to manage your dependencies manually.
cargo is the official tool to compile Rust projects. It internally uses rustc, but additionally manages the project's dependencies that are specified in Cargo.toml.
cargo build --release && ./target/release/<project_name>
or the short form:
cargo run --release

How to get the binary output of cargo run <rust.rs>?

When we compile a c file using gcc test.c -o test.
We can get the binary file as test.
But while running a file using cargo run test.rs in rust.
can we get the binary like we got in the C program?
The original hello.c file:
void main() {
// printf() displays the string inside quotation
printf("Hello, World!");
}
The rust program:
extern "C" {
fn printf(_: *const libc::c_char, _: ...) -> libc::c_int;
}
unsafe fn main_0() {
// printf() displays the string inside quotation
printf(b"Hello, World!\x00" as *const u8 as *const libc::c_char);
}
pub fn main() { unsafe { main_0() } ::std::process::exit(0i32); }
When using cargo it compiles and runs perfectly.
└─$ cargo run hello.rs
Compiling Rust_testing v0.1.0 (/home/pegasus/Documents/Rust_testing)
warning: crate `Rust_testing` should have a snake case name
|
= note: `#[warn(non_snake_case)]` on by default
= help: convert the identifier to snake case: `rust_testing`
warning: `Rust_testing` (bin "Rust_testing") generated 1 warning
Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.17s
Running `target/debug/Rust_testing hello.rs`
Hello, world!
Here's my Cargo.toml file:
[package]
name = "Rust_testing"
version = "0.1.0"
edition = "2021"
# See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
[dependencies]
libc = "0.2"
I have a rust program named hello.rs.
The program is I'm unable to compile it using rustc. I generated the hello.rs using c2rust online transpiler. But if I use cargo run hello.rs the program runs smoothly.
while using rustc new.rs -o test,
I can get the x86 test binary.
How to get similar kind of file while using the cargo run new.rs?
I looked into the target/debug directory.
But there are so many directories and so many files there. How to know which on is created for which .rs file?
┌──(pegasus㉿pegasus)-[~/Documents/Rust_testing/target/debug]
└─$ ls
build deps examples incremental Rust_testing Rust_testing.d
If you do cargo build, you will find the binary in target/debug/. If you build in release via cargo build --release, you will find it in target/release/.
Be aware that cargo run hello.rs does not compile hello.rs. It will always compile src/main.rs. hello.rs will be passed to the compiled program as a command line argument.
How to know which on is created for which .rs file?
There isn't one file for one .rs file. If your crate is a binary crate, then there will be exactly one executable with the name of your crate. In your case it's Rust_testing. You can run it with ./target/debug/Rust_testing, or copy it somewhere else and execute it directly.
You can add multiple binaries per crate by putting them in the src/bin folder. For example, if you put your hello.rs file in src/bin and then execute cargo build --all, it will create a target/debug/hello executable that you can run.
For more information about cargo's folder layout, read the cargo documentation.
If you are new to Rust, I highly recommend reading the Rust book. It will guide you through how to use rustup, rustc and cargo step by step.

Missing crate when using rustc but not using cargo

I'm using the epub crate on version 1.2.3 and my Cargo.toml is formatted as such
[package]
name = "cl-epub-reader"
version = "0.1.0"
edition = "2021"
# See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
[dependencies]
epub = "1.2.22"
and my main.rs is
use epub::doc::EpubDoc;
use epub::doc::NavPoint;
use std::env::args;
fn main() {
let args: Vec<String> = args().collect();
let doc = EpubDoc::new(&args[1]).unwrap();
// assert!(doc.is_ok());
println!("{:?}", doc.mdata("title"));
}
All it does is get the uses the path from the a user input then it gets the title metadata and printing it.
When I run cargo run it outputs an error about an error about going out of range, which is expected however when I run rustc src/main.rs the error is error[E0433]: failed to resolve: maybe a missing crate `epub`?
Does anyone know the cause of this and how to solve this issue?
When you call rustc directly, you need to pass the appropriate options to tell the compiler where the crates are installed on your computer. cargo handles that automatically for you (you can use the -v option to cargo build to see the actual rustc command lines it uses).

Why do I get "can't find crate" that is listed as a dependency in Cargo.toml when I compile with rustc?

My Cargo.toml includes this:
[dependencies]
chrono = "0.4"
And my code includes this:
extern crate chrono;
use chrono::{Duration, DateTime, Utc};
yet when I run my code, I get this error:
error[E0463]: can't find crate for `chrono`
--> src/lib.rs:1:1
|
1 | extern crate chrono;
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ can't find crate
I am working on an Exercism exercise, so the way I am building/running the program is rustc src/lib.rs to test my solution. Is the problem because I'm not running rustc src/main.rs?
When you're directly running rustc, all that compiler knows is the command line arguments. It doesn't know anything about Cargo.toml, in particular, and so it doesn't know where to look for chrono library.
To use dependency management, you have to compile your project with Cargo - just use cargo build/cargo run/cargo test, and everything should be fine. See the Book for details.
If, however, you want (for some reason) use rustc directly, I'd advise to check first cargo anyway, by using cargo build --verbose. It will show all the commands that are invoked, allowing you to inspect the possible arguments to be defined manually.

"expected crate directive" error about rust

Editor's note: This question was asked before Rust 1.0 was released and the syntax, error messages, and even how crates are bundled have changed since then.
i wrote a rust example program.
code is this:
use std;
import std::io;
fn main() {
io::println("hello world");
}
i try to compile it, but the rustc compile tell me some error message .
hello.rc:4:0: 4:2 error: expected crate directive
hello.rc:4 fn main() {
^~
my rustc version is
macmatoMacBook-Air:test kula$ rustc -v
rustc 0.1.1 (a0f0a70 2012-03-10 00:35:02 -0800)
host: x86_64-apple-darwin
and my os is mac osx 10.7
anyone know what happened? i think my rust code has no problem on it.
The compiler is trying to be smart and behaves differently for .rs (source) and .rc (crate) files.
Try again with a .rs file extension! :)

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