Installation

Using cargo-generate with vendored libgit2 and system's OpenSSL

By default, cargo-generate uses vendored sources for libgit2 and OpenSSL that is installed on your system.

cargo install cargo-generate

This requires the following dependencies on your system:

• libssl-dev (this could also be named openssl)

Using cargo-generate with vendored OpenSSL

However, you can also opt in to use a vendored OpenSSL version. So that you don't have to have OpenSSL installed and built it on the spot.

this would require the following dependencies on your system, as documented by the openssl crate:

• A C compiler (gcc, for example)
• perl and perl-core
• make

cargo install cargo-generate --features vendored-openssl

Using cargo-generate with system's libgit2 and system's OpenSSL

You can opt-out of vendored libraries and use libgit2 and OpenSSL from your system by building cargo-generate without the default dependencies.

cargo install cargo-generate --no-default-features

This will require the following dependencies on your system:

• pkg-config
• libgit2
• libssl-dev (this could also be named openssl)

Using pacman (Arch Linux)

cargo-generate can be installed from the extra repository for Arch Linux:

pacman -S cargo-generate

Manual Installation

1. Download the binary tarball for your platform from our releases page.
2. Unpack the tarball and place the binary cargo-generate in ~/.cargo/bin/