% Configuration
This document will explain how Cargo’s configuration system works, as well as available keys or configuration. For configuration of a project through its manifest, see the manifest format.
Cargo allows to have local configuration for a particular project or global
configuration (like git). Cargo also extends this ability to a hierarchical
strategy. If, for example, Cargo were invoked in /home/foo/bar/baz, then the
following configuration files would be probed for:
/home/foo/bar/baz/.cargo/config/home/foo/bar/.cargo/config/home/foo/.cargo/config/home/.cargo/config/.cargo/config
With this structure you can specify local configuration per-project, and even possibly check it into version control. You can also specify personal default with a configuration file in your home directory.
All configuration is currently in the TOML format (like the manifest), with simple key-value pairs inside of sections (tables) which all get merged together.
All of the following keys are optional, and their defaults are listed as their value unless otherwise noted.
Key values that specify a tool may be given as an absolute path, a relative path
or as a pathless tool name. Absolute paths and pathless tool names are used as
given. Relative paths are resolved relative to the parent directory of the
.cargo directory of the config file that the value resides within.
# An array of paths to local repositories which are to be used as overrides for
# dependencies. For more information see the Specifying Dependencies guide.
paths = ["/path/to/override"]
[cargo-new]
# This is your name/email to place in the `authors` section of a new Cargo.toml
# that is generated. If not present, then `git` will be probed, and if that is
# not present then `$USER` and `$EMAIL` will be used.
name = "..."
email = "..."
# By default `cargo new` will initialize a new git repository. This key can be
# set to `none` to disable this behavior.
vcs = "none"
# For the following sections, $triple refers to any valid target triple, not the
# literal string "$triple", and it will apply whenever that target triple is
# being compiled to.
[target]
# For Cargo builds which do not mention --target, this is the linker
# which is passed to rustc (via `-C linker=`). By default this flag is not
# passed to the compiler.
linker = ".."
[target.$triple]
# Similar to the above linker configuration, but this only applies to
# when the `$triple` is being compiled for.
linker = ".."
# Configuration keys related to the registry
[registry]
index = "..." # URL of the registry index (defaults to the central repository)
token = "..." # Access token (found on the central repo’s website)
[http]
proxy = "..." # HTTP proxy to use for HTTP requests (defaults to none)
timeout = 60000 # Timeout for each HTTP request, in milliseconds
cainfo = "cert.pem" # Path to Certificate Authority (CA) bundle (optional)
[build]
jobs = 1 # number of parallel jobs, defaults to # of CPUs
rustc = "rustc" # the rust compiler tool
rustdoc = "rustdoc" # the doc generator tool
target = "triple" # build for the target triple
target-dir = "target" # path of where to place all generated artifacts
rustflags = ["..", ".."] # custom flags to pass to all compiler invocations
[term]
verbose = false # whether cargo provides verbose output
color = 'auto' # whether cargo colorizes output
# Network configuration
[net]
retry = 2 # number of times a network call will automatically retried
# Alias cargo commands. The first 3 aliases are built in. If your
# command requires grouped whitespace use the list format.
[alias]
b = "build"
t = "test"
r = "run"
rr = "run --release"
space_example = ["run", "--release", "--", "\"command list\""]Cargo can also be configured through environment variables in addition to the
TOML syntax above. For each configuration key above of the form foo.bar the
environment variable CARGO_FOO_BAR can also be used to define the value. For
example the build.jobs key can also be defined by CARGO_BUILD_JOBS.
Environment variables will take precedent over TOML configuration, and currently only integer, boolean, and string keys are supported to be defined by environment variables.
In addition to the system above, Cargo recognizes a few other specific environment variables.