Where are modules installed by Cargo stored in a Rust project?

Question

In NodeJS, all the packages installed by NPM are stored in the node_modules/ directory. Is there any such directory in Rust? Are the crates installed somewhere globally?

Answer 1

Crates are installed globally for the current user, not per project. Currently, they are stored in <user directory>/.cargo/registry.

• Mac: /Users/<username>/.cargo/registry
• Or, in general on Mac, Linux & Unix: $HOME/.cargo/registry
• Windows 10: \Users\<username>\.cargo\registry

There is an RFC in progress to standardise this, and use the location that users of each platform would more likely expect.

See also:

• How can the location of Cargo's configuration directory be overridden?
• Where does Cargo put the git requirements?