use std::path::Path; use std::process::Command; use std::str; const DEP_LICENSES_PATH: &str = "thanks/licenses.html"; const PROGRAM: &str = "cargo-about"; // This script updates the dependency licenses file by using cargo-about to generate the // dependencies, this project relies on. // // Usage: // To update the dependency licenses file, run from the project root folder: // `cargo run --example update_dep_licenses` fn main() { println!("Starting the update process of the dependency licenses file."); // Check if cargo-about is available in our PATH. let license_tool_might_be_installed = if cfg!(windows) { Command::new("where.exe") .args(&[PROGRAM]) .output() .expect("`where.exe` unavailable.") .stdout } else { Command::new("which") .args(&[PROGRAM]) .output() .expect("`which` unavailable.") .stdout }; // Convert to str let str_path = str::from_utf8(license_tool_might_be_installed.as_slice()) .expect("Unable to convert path.") .trim(); // Convert to a path and check if it exists; // If it does; cargo-about has been found and doesn't need to be installed first. let path = Path::new(str_path); if !path.exists() { let installation_code = Command::new("cargo") .args(&["install", PROGRAM]) .status() .expect("Unable to get status of cargo-about install."); // installation failed if !installation_code.success() { panic!("Unable to install license listing tool."); } } else { println!("license listing tool path found at: {:?}", path); } // Now cargo-about should be installed and in our PATH. // Next, we will use it to generate the licenses from our dependencies. // These will be saved under /target/DEP_LICENSES. let output = Command::new("cargo") .args(&["about", "generate", "about.hbs"]) .output().expect( "Unable to read `cargo about` output; `cargo-about` and `cargo` should be in your path!", ); if !output.stderr.is_empty() { panic!( "Unable to generate list of dependency licenses: {}\n", String::from_utf8_lossy(&output.stderr) ); } let dep_licenses_in_bytes = output.stdout; std::fs::write(DEP_LICENSES_PATH, &dep_licenses_in_bytes) .expect("Unable to write license texts to license file."); println!("Completed the update process of the dependency licenses file."); }