Building a Rust Project

What this guide covers

This guide covers build environment and configuration topics specific to Rust projects. Please make sure to read our Getting started and general build configuration guides first.

Supported Rust versions

Travis supports all three release channels of Rust: stable, beta, and nightly. Furthermore, you can test against a specific Rust release by using its version number.

Travis CI also installs the appropriate language tools that come with each Rust version. As of Rust 1.16.0, these include cargo, rustc, rustdoc, rust-gdb, rust-lldb, and rustup.

Choosing the Rust version

By default, we download and install the latest stable Rust release at the start of the build. If you’re just testing stable, this is all that you need:

language: rust

The Rust version that is specified in the .travis.yml is available during the build in the TRAVIS_RUST_VERSION environment variable.

You can also test against a particular Rust release:

language: rust
rust:
  - 1.0.0
  - 1.1.0

The Rust team appreciates testing against the beta and nightly channels, even if you are only targeting stable. A full configuration looks like this:

language: rust
rust:
  - stable
  - beta
  - nightly
matrix:
  allow_failures:
    - rust: nightly

This will test all three channels, but any breakage in nightly will not fail your overall build.

Default test script

Travis CI uses Cargo to run your build and tests by default. The exact commands run are:

$ cargo build --verbose
$ cargo test --verbose

If you wish to override this, you can use the script setting:

language: rust
script: make all