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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Rust.md b/docs/markdown/Rust.md index 74f68442c..d30fe6837 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Rust.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Rust.md @@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ short-description: Working with Rust in Meson Meson can't track dependency information for crates linked by rustc as a result of `extern crate` statements in Rust source code. If your crate dependencies are properly expressed in Meson, there should be no -need for `extern crate` statements in your Rust code. +need for `extern crate` statements in your Rust code, as long as you use the +Rust 2018 edition or later. This means adding `rust_std=2018` (or later) to the +`project(default_options)` argument. An example of the problems with `extern crate` is that if you delete a crate from a Meson build file, other crates that depend on that crate |