cargo_embargo

cargo_embargo is a tool to generate Android.bp files automatically for external Rust crates which are intended to build with cargo. It can be built with m cargo_embargo and run with cargo_embargo generate cargo_embargo.json in a directory containing one or more Rust packages. If successful this will write out an Android.bp file.

Configuration

cargo_embargo is configured with a JSON configuration file usually called cargo_embargo.json. This can contain a number of options, specified at several levels. A config may cover one or more packages, and have one or more variants. All packages under external/rust/crates use a separate cargo_embargo.json file per package, but other users (such as crosvm) may use a single cargo_embargo.json for a tree of many packages. Most configurations have a single variant, but multiple variants are used in some cases to provide both std and no_std variants of a package.

The overall structure of a config file looks like this:

{
  // Top-level options, for all packages and variants.
  "package": {
    "package_name": {
      // Options for all variants of a package.
    },
    "another_package_name": {
      // ...
    }
  },
  "variants": [
    {
      // Options for a specific variant of all packages.
      "package": {
        "package_name": {
          // Options for a specific variant of a specific package.
        }
      }
    },
    {
      // Options for another variant.
    }
  ]
}

If a package is not included in the package map then it is assumed to use default options. If the package map is omitted then all packages will use default options. If variants is omitted then there is assumed to be a single variant. Thus {} is a valid config file for a single variant with all default options.

A typical config file for a simple package may look like:

{
  "run_cargo": false,
  "tests": true
}

This expands to a single variant with the given options, and all packages (i.e. the only one) using default options.

Top-level configuration options

These options may all be specified at the top level of the config file, or overridden per variant.

Name	Type	Default	Meaning
`tests`	boolean	`false`	Whether to output `rust_test` modules.
`features`	list of strings	-	Set of features to enable. If not set, uses the default crate features.
`workspace`	boolean	`false`	Whether to build with `--workspace`.
`workspace_excludes`	list of strings	`[]`	When workspace is enabled, list of `--exclude` crates.
`global_defaults`	string	-	Value to use for every generated module's `defaults` field.
`apex_available`	list of strings	`["//apex_available:platform", "//apex_available:anyapex"]`	Value to use for every generated library module's `apex_available` field.
`native_bridge_supported`	boolean	`false`	Value to use for every generated library module's `native_bridge_supported` field.
`product_available`	boolean	`true`	Value to use for every generated library module's `product_available` field.
`ramdisk_available`	boolean	`false`	Value to use for every generated library module's `ramdisk_available` field.
`recovery_available`	boolean	`false`	Value to use for every generated library module's `recovery_available` field.
`vendor_available`	boolean	`true`	Value to use for every generated library module's `vendor_available` field.
`vendor_ramdisk_available`	boolean	`false`	Value to use for every generated library module's `vendor_ramdisk_available` field.
`min_sdk_version`	string	-	Minimum SDK version for generated modules' `min_sdk_version` field.
`module_name_overrides`	string => string	`{}`	Map of renames for modules. For example, if a “libfoo” would be generated and there is an entry (“libfoo”, “libbar”), the generated module will be called “libbar” instead.
`cfg_blocklist`	list of strings	`[]`	`cfg` flags in this list will not be included.
`extra_cfg`	list of strings	`[]`	Extra `cfg` flags to enable in output modules.
`module_blocklist`	list of strings	`[]`	Modules in this list will not be generated.
`module_visibility`	string => list of strings	`{}`	Modules name => Soong “visibility” property.
`run_cargo`	boolean	`true`	Whether to run the cargo build and parse its output, rather than just figuring things out from the cargo metadata.
`generate_androidbp`	boolean	`true`	Whether to generate Android build rules in an `Android.bp` file.
`generate_rulesmk`	boolean	`false`	Whether to generate Trusty build rules in `rules.mk` and `Android.bp` files.

Of particular note, it is preferable to set run_cargo to false where possible as it is significantly faster. However, this may miss important details in more complicated cases, such as packages with a build.rs, so it is recommended to run with run_cargo set to true initially, and then compare the output when it is changed to false.

Per-package configuration options

These options may be specified per package. Most may also be overridden per variant. They may not be specified outside of a package.

Name	Type	Default	Per variant	Meaning
`add_toplevel_block`	path	-	no	File with content to append to the end of the generated Android.bp.
`patch`	path	-	no	Patch file to apply after Android.bp is generated.
`rulesmk_patch`	path	-	no	Patch file to apply after rules.mk is generated.
`license_text`	list of paths	-	no	Files to use for `license_text` in `license` module.
`alloc`	boolean	`false`	yes	Link against `alloc`. Only valid if `no_std` is also true.
`device_supported`	boolean	`true`	yes	Whether to compile for device. Defaults to true.
`host_supported`	boolean	`true`	yes	Whether to compile for host. Defaults to true.
`host_first_multilib`	boolean	`false`	yes	Add a `compile_multilib: "first"` property to host modules.
`force_rlib`	boolean	`false`	yes	Generate “rust_library_rlib” instead of “rust_library”.
`no_presubmit`	boolean	`false`	yes	Whether to disable “unit_test” for “rust_test” modules.
`add_module_block`	path	-	yes	File with content to append to the end of each generated module.
`dep_blocklist`	list of strings	`[]`	yes	Modules in this list will not be added as dependencies of generated modules.
`no_std`	boolean	`false`	yes	Don't link against `std`, only `core`.
`copy_out`	boolean	`false`	yes	Copy `build.rs` output to `./out/` and add a genrule to copy `./out/` to genrule output.
`test_data`	string => list of strings	`{}`	yes	Add the given files to the given tests' `data` property. The key is the test source filename relative to the crate
`whole_static_libs`	list of strings	`[]`	yes	Static libraries in this list will instead be added as whole_static_libs.
`exported_c_header_dir`	list of paths	`[]`	yes	Directories with headers to export for C usage.

Auto-config

For importing a new package, you may start by running cargo_embargo's autoconfig mode:

cargo_embargo autoconfig cargo_embargo.json

This will attempt to generate a suitable cargo_embargo.json for the package in the current directory, by trying with run_cargo both true and false, and including tests if there are any.