How do the --lib and --bin flags work?

[mscofield0]

Binary projects have a main.rs and library ones have lib.rs. Which ones do I make so that cargo-generate generates the right thing?

[sassman]

There is this example in the README

[package]
# the usual stuff

[dependencies]
{% if crate_type == "bin" %}
structopt = "0.3.21"
{% endif %}
# other general dependencies

{% if crate_type == "bin" %}
[[bin]]
path = "src/main.rs"
name = "{{crate_name}}-cli"
{% endif %}

that illustrates the behaviour.

So as a template author you can provide both files, and offer both capabilities.
A user must then delete the not needed file after generating the project.

[mscofield0]

Thanks, I literally don't know how I missed that in the README.