Kinoko Mushroom

For the uninformed, the title is mushroom mushroom essentially. Tiny program for compiling small rust projects. Initially written cause I don't understand cargo and rustc is just fine for most of my uses of rust, but too long to write the command even once (I'm pretty lazy). So I wrote a program that will just run the rustc command for me. It's not extremely crazy of a project it essentially just runs rustc -o build/program src/main.rs which honestly could be a bash script, but I don't want to write a bash script for all my minor utilities written in rust. Also I am not a rustacean, thank you very much.

Kinoko only is operational on code that does NOT use dependencies outside of the standard library.

NOTE: Not sure how obvious it is to some but it is required to have rust installed with rustc included in your path.

kinoko.🍄

The kinoko.🍄 file is the basis on how the mini-project is compiled in a very naive sense. All it keeps track of as of now is the target name and the entry file. If the file doesn't exist it will be created by attempting to find where a fn main() might exist in the current directory or the src subdirectory if it exists to figure out where's the entry file and proceeds to use the current directory's name as the output file name.

NOTE: Before the kinoko program would auto-generate the kinoko file if not found by searching for an entry point. This functionality is momentarily removed and will be brought back in the future as a separate command probably. The file holds the following structure:

root: src/main.rs
head: build/output

With root referring to the entry file and head referring to the output file.

Run/Germinate

To make the mushroom germinate an executable all that's needed is to run the following:

$ kinoko build

This will automatically call onto rustc and provide what are the entry file and the output file based on kinoko.🍄 file. Will approximately do the following:

$ rustc -o build/WHY_IS_THERE_CODE src/main.rs

Init a project:

You can initialize a minimal project by doing the following command:

$ kinoko init <project-name>

NOTE: If you want to create it at the current directory, you can omit the project name.

This will create the following structure:

 project/
   |- build/
   |
   |- src/
   |  |- main.rs
   |
   |- kinoko.🍄

The main.rs file will have a base hello world setup which also prints the arguments passed onto the program.

TODO:

• Be able to change the target name/path through the CLI
• Be able to change the source through the CLI
• Be able to run tests like cargo
• Be able to clear out kinoko and transition to cargo