Help use the rust plugin. What am I not understanding?

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I had a fair struggle with this myself. I agree the documentation is useless.

Came up with this as a solution, particularly in the context of needing a specific rust version/channel to build:

Correct snapcraft syntax for Rust-based snap on core22

After some back-and-forth, the following seems to work: rust-deps: plugin: nil build-packages: - curl override-pull: | curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y xxx: plugin: rust source: . after: [rust-deps] build-packages: - pkg-config You may not need pkg-config, but in my case without it the cargo build process wasn’t able to pull in some libraries required by specific crates. With the above approach anything i…