Crate build_data_writer

build-data-writer

Functions to to write build-data.txt from your build.rs. Read the file with the build-data crate.

Features

• Saves build-time data:
  • Timestamp
  • Date-time string
  • Hostname
  • git commit, branch, and dirtiness
  • rustc version
• forbid(unsafe_code)
• 100% test coverage

Alternatives

• build-info
  • Mature & popular
  • Confusing API
  • Uses procedural macros

Example

See build-data crate docs.

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Changelog

• v0.1.2 - Support older versions of git when getting branch name.
• v0.1.1 - Initial version

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Functions

escape_ascii	Converts a byte slice into a string using core::ascii::escape_default to escape each byte.
exec	Executes cmd with args as parameters, waits for it to exit, and returns its stdout, trimmed, and escaped with escape_ascii.
format_iso8601	Formats the time as an ISO-8601 or RFC-3339 string. Example: 2021-04-14T06:25:59+00:00
get_git_branch	Gets the current branch of the source code directory.
get_git_commit	Gets the latest git commit of the source code directory.
get_hostname	Gets the name of the current machine.
get_rustc_version	Gets the version of the Rust compiler used to build the build script.
get_seconds_since_epoch	Gets the number of seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z.
is_git_dirty	Returns true if the source directory contains uncommitted changes.
no_debug_rebuilds	Tells cargo not to rebuild build.rs during debug builds when other files change. This speeds up development builds.
write	Writes build-data.txt.