@natty @wyatt8740 there is no box, building c libraries in build.rs is not a box, not a solution, it's an ugly hack that breaks in the real world a lot

that is the major issue, real systems are not neat boxes, they're messy, they need proper handling, cargo provides nothing for that, and at the same time, it *refuses* to play along with other tools. it wants control of the source tree but it does not want to do all the work necessary to interface with the rest of the world

can't stick to doing simple binaries if your project doesn't ship only binaries, because those files can't be wrapped in a rust binary to begin with