extern crate - Rust By Example
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# `extern crate`

To link a crate to this new library, the `extern crate` declaration must be used. This will not only link the library, but also import all its items under a module named the same as the library. The visibility rules that apply to modules also apply to libraries.

    // Link to `library`, import items under the `rary` module
    extern crate rary;

    fn main() {
        rary::public_function();

        // Error! `private_function` is private
        //rary::private_function();

        rary::indirect_access();
    }

    # Where library.rlib is the path to the compiled library, assumed that it's
    # in the same directory here:
    $ rustc executable.rs --extern rary=library.rlib && ./executable
    called rary's `public_function()`
    called rary's `indirect_access()`, that
    > called rary's `private_function()`