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Expand Up @@ -4078,6 +4078,12 @@ be ignored in favor of only building the artifacts specified by command line.
Rust code into an existing non-Rust application because it will not have
dynamic dependencies on other Rust code.

* `--crate-type=cdylib`, `#[crate_type = "cdylib"]` - A dynamic system
library will be produced. This is used when compiling Rust code as
a dynamic library to be loaded from another language. This output type will
create `*.so` files on Linux, `*.dylib` files on OSX, and `*.dll` files on
Windows.

* `--crate-type=rlib`, `#[crate_type = "rlib"]` - A "Rust library" file will be
produced. This is used as an intermediate artifact and can be thought of as a
"static Rust library". These `rlib` files, unlike `staticlib` files, are
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