Set up a Cargo workspace: members, shared [workspace.dependencies], resolver, per-crate commands
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Create a root Cargo.toml with a [workspace] table listing `members = ["crate-a", "crate-b"]` (glob patterns like "crates/*" allowed). A root with no [package] is a 'virtual' workspace.
Declare shared dependency versions once under [workspace.dependencies], e.g. `serde = "1.0"`; each member then writes `serde = { workspace = true }` in its own [dependencies]. Members can add `features = [...]` alongside `workspace = true`.
Set `resolver = "3"` (or at least "2") in the [workspace] table of a virtual workspace — see gotchas.
Target one member with `-p`: `cargo build -p crate-a`, `cargo test -p crate-b`; or everything with `--workspace`.
All members share a single target/ directory and a single Cargo.lock at the workspace root.
A virtual workspace with no explicit resolver defaults to resolver "1" — current cargo prints: 'virtual workspace defaulting to resolver = "1" despite one or more workspace members being on edition 2024 which implies resolver = "3"'. Set workspace.resolver explicitly to silence it and get modern feature resolution.
[workspace.dependencies] entries are inert until a member opts in with `{ workspace = true }` — adding a dep at the root does not automatically add it to any member.
workspace.dependencies inheritance works regardless of resolver version (verified on cargo 1.95); the resolver setting affects feature unification, not inheritance.
Two members defining a binary with the same name collide in the shared target/ directory.
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