Cargo Remote

Use with caution, I didn't test this software well and it is a really ugly hack (at least for now).

Why is it useful

One big annoyance when working on rust projects on my notebook are the compile times. Since I'm using rust nightly for some of my projects I have to recompile rather often. Currently there seem to be no good remote-build integrations for rust, so I decided to build one my own.

Planned capabilities

This first version is very dumb (could have been a bash script), but I intend to enhance it to a point where it detects compatibility between local and remote versions, allows (nearly) all cargo commands and maybe even load distribution over multiple machines.

Current capabilities

For now only cargo remote --remote=user@server build works: it copies the current project to a temporary directory on the remote server, calls cargo build remotely and copies back the resulting target folder. This assumes that server and client are running the same rust version and have the same processor architecture. On the client ssh and rsync need to be installed.

How to install

git clone https://github.com/sgeisler/cargo-remote.git
cd cargo-remote
cargo install