The goal is to have a bin crate depend on a .wasm file that is built from a local dependency and only have to cargo build it.
To achieve this, it uses the bindeps unstable feature.
This repository has the appropriate setup and cargo build does indeed succeed using nightly (cargo 1.61.0-nightly (3d6970d50 2022-02-28)).
An issue occurs when adding a (any?) dependency in the wasm module (see wasm-module/Cargo.toml). This results in the following error:
thread 'main' panicked at 'activated_features for invalid package: features did not find PackageId { name: "log", version: "0.4.14", source: "registry `crates-io`" } NormalOrDevOrArtifactTarget(None)
Stack backtrace:
0: std::backtrace::Backtrace::create
1: std::backtrace::Backtrace::capture
2: <anyhow::Error>::msg::<alloc::string::String>
3: <cargo::core::resolver::features::ResolvedFeatures>::activated_features_int
4: cargo::core::compiler::unit_dependencies::new_unit_dep_with_profile
5: cargo::core::compiler::unit_dependencies::dep_build_script
6: cargo::core::compiler::unit_dependencies::compute_deps
7: cargo::core::compiler::unit_dependencies::deps_of
8: cargo::core::compiler::unit_dependencies::deps_of
9: cargo::core::compiler::unit_dependencies::deps_of
10: cargo::core::compiler::unit_dependencies::deps_of_roots
11: cargo::core::compiler::unit_dependencies::build_unit_dependencies
12: cargo::ops::cargo_compile::create_bcx
13: cargo::ops::cargo_compile::compile_ws
14: cargo::ops::cargo_compile::compile
15: cargo::commands::build::exec
16: cargo::cli::main
17: cargo::main
18: std::sys_common::backtrace::__rust_begin_short_backtrace::<fn(), ()>
19: std::rt::lang_start::<()>::{closure#0}
20: std::rt::lang_start_internal
21: _main', src/tools/cargo/src/cargo/core/resolver/features.rs:318:14
stack backtrace:
0: _rust_begin_unwind
1: core::panicking::panic_fmt
2: core::result::unwrap_failed
3: cargo::core::compiler::unit_dependencies::new_unit_dep_with_profile
4: cargo::core::compiler::unit_dependencies::dep_build_script
5: cargo::core::compiler::unit_dependencies::compute_deps
6: cargo::core::compiler::unit_dependencies::deps_of
7: cargo::core::compiler::unit_dependencies::deps_of
8: cargo::core::compiler::unit_dependencies::deps_of
9: cargo::core::compiler::unit_dependencies::deps_of_roots
10: cargo::core::compiler::unit_dependencies::build_unit_dependencies
11: cargo::ops::cargo_compile::create_bcx
12: cargo::ops::cargo_compile::compile_ws
13: cargo::ops::cargo_compile::compile
14: cargo::commands::build::exec
15: cargo::cli::main
16: cargo::main