"Creating the bindgen binary" tutorial instructions breaks `cargo build`

[SalvatoreT]

I followed the tutorial for generating the bindgen binary, and it works for generating bindings! However, now when I call cargo build on my (single crate) project, I get an error because of the missing uniffi/cli feature logic.

❯ cargo build
   Compiling example v0.1.0 (/Users/sal/Development/example)
error[E0425]: cannot find function `uniffi_bindgen` in crate `uniffi`
 --> uniffi-bindgen.rs:2:13
  |
2 |     uniffi::uniffi_bindgen()
  |             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ not found in `uniffi`

For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0425`.
error: could not compile `example` due to previous error

Is there a way to set this up without breaking cargo build? Should I be doing this in a different crate, or is there a different macro I should use?

I'm admittedly newer to Rust and cargo, so the problem might be me. 😅

┆Issue is synchronized with this Jira Task
┆Issue Number: UNIFFI-241

[badboy]

You will need to enable the cli feature on the dependency, as you correctly call out.
The Multi-crate workspaces paragraph below calls that out, but you are right that this will probably required in any case to not break a simple cargo build.

I see to get the docs changed.

[SalvatoreT]

Thank you!

[heinrich5991]

Workaround: cargo build --lib will continue to work.

[abrark-co2]

I have included the feature flag cli in dependencies and it works.

[dependencies]
uniffi = { version = "0.24.3", features = ["cli"] }

[build-dependencies]
uniffi = { version = "0.24.3", features = ["build"]}

[heinrich5991]

This will create an unnecessary dependency of the library on the CLI dependencies.