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Rust
The Rust project is built using Cargo which manages dependencies between the
projects as well as external dependencies and allows for incremental
compilation. The build configuration is defined in
Cargo.toml.
Java Native Interface
Although the entry point of the Enso project is a Java archive, it can still make use of native libraries built in Rust trough the JVM foreign function interface (FFI) named Java Native Interface (JNI).
In order to generate a shared library, the Cargo.toml needs to enable
compilation into a dynamic system library:
crate-type = ["cdylib"]
Invoking cargo build will then output the library into target/rust/debug
with the extension .so on Linux, .dll on Windows and .dylib on macOS.
Then, to be able to load the library by System.loadLibrary("lib_name"), the
Java application should be started with the option
-Djava.library.path=path/to/lib_folder.