Please document how to install a prebuild binary
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As the docs say, there is also a way to install the prebuild binaries as can be found here:
https://github.com/alexcrichton/cargo-vendor/releases
But not sure which command or options are necessary. Also simply copying the binary into .cargo/bin does not work, because cargo install --list will not list it.
Thanks.
Hm copying the binary into .cargo/bin not working is unexpected! Are you sure it's executable inside that directory? And this is $HOME/.cargo/bin, right?
In theory the instructions would be (a) un-tar and (b) copy to $HOME/.cargo/bin, but if that's not working that sounds bad!
So executing the binary works, but cargo itself doesn't know about it. I assume it's happening because of the missing registry entry in .cargo/.crates.toml, and maybe other places.
Cargo should search $HOME/.cargo/bin by default, it shouldn't need to be in .crates.toml in theory. Are you sure this is placed in $HOME/.cargo/bin and $HOME/.cargo is the value of CARGO_HOME you're using?
Sorry for replying that late, but I missed your response until now.
Maybe that was a problem in our bootstrap script at that time. When I had to run the command which uses cargo-vendor again a couple of days ago it was working all fine.
Lets just close this issue for now, and if I see it again and have more data I might want to reopen again.