Find unused dependencies in Cargo.toml.

While compilation of this tool also works on Rust stable, it needs Rust nightly to actually run.

https://github.com/est31/cargo-udeps/releases

cargo install cargo-udeps --locked

cargo install --git https://github.com/est31/cargo-udeps --locked

Some package managers have packaged cargo-udeps:

• Nix/Nix OS: cargo-udeps
• Arch Linux: pacman -S cargo-udeps
• Homebrew: brew install cargo-udeps

cargo  nightly udeps

It either prints out a "unused crates" line listing the crates, or it prints out a line saying that no crates were unused.

To ignore some of the dependencies, add package.metadata.cargo-udeps.ignore to Cargo.toml.

[package.metadata.cargo-udeps.ignore]
normal = ["if_chain"]
#development = []
#build = []

[dependencies]
if_chain = "1.0.0" # Used only in doc-tests, which `cargo-udeps` cannot check.

• Some unused crates might not be detected. This includes crates used by std and its dependencies as well as crates that are already being used by dependencies of the studied crate.

• Crates are currently only handled on a per name basis. Two crates with the same name but different versions would be a problem.

This is a list of cases where unused dependencies were found using cargo-udeps. You are welcome to expand it:

• nushell/nushell#519
• servo/pathfinder#236
• https://github.com/oconnor663/shared_child.rs/commit/5929637f5cf1bebc5d608b4d98fd5c8a10626712
• https://github.com/oconnor663/bao/commit/d216ee7c04e3587925dee68cce0b2a1ba44bc1d2
• https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/commit/03b685673bebbc95e2bcbd7c85358547bcffe8c3
• rust-lang/crater#446
• https://github.com/kodegenix/kg-tree/commit/0270ec495887cf0ff7580155db4ff12664614ee8
• https://github.com/opereon/opereon/commit/4d29cf174c0b178c1484f698ceb0e654f95a78d0
• https://github.com/djg/audioipc-2/commit/de0fc58cf1e87079027fce06b50eeffa6ae23d54
• casey/just#587
• garvys-org/rustfst#76
• yewstack/yew_router#252
• rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoincore-rpc#169
• hendrikmaus/helm-templexer#85
• https://github.com/itchysats/itchysats/commit/99076ecb907b3bfc5f31ffcdad9716df1869c8f7

See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.

This tool is distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0), at your option.

See LICENSE for details.

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.