How to configure esp-idf-template without cargo-generate

[zdl361]

Ubuntu 22.04.1 x86_64 GNU/Linux I'm getting a segmentation fault when I running "cargo-generate generate esp-rs/esp-idf-template cargo" . Both the cargo-generate binary installed by "cargo install cargo-generate" and "cargo binstall cargo-generate" have segment fault and I can't fix it. How to configure esp-idf-template without cargo-generate?

shell:

!32 ~/src % cargo generate esp-rs/esp-idf-template cargo         
⚠️   Favorite `esp-rs/esp-idf-template` not found in config, using it as a git repository: https://github.com/esp-rs/esp-idf-template.git
zsh: segmentation fault  cargo generate esp-rs/esp-idf-template cargo

GDB:

Core was generated by `/home/zdl361/.cargo/bin/cargo-generate generate esp-rs/esp-idf-template cargo'.
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0  __strlen_avx2 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strlen-avx2.S:74

[zdl361]

The bug comes from the code that handles git. The solution is to manually download the esp-idf-template to the local path. Use cargo generate to read templates from a local path

git clone https://github.com/esp-rs/esp-idf-template
cargo generate --vcs none ./esp-idf-template

[SergioGasquez]

Which version of cargo-generate are you using (cargo generate --version)?

[zdl361]

Which version of cargo-generate are you using (cargo generate --version)?

cargo generate-generate 0.18.3

[SergioGasquez]

cargo generate-generate 0.18.3

That's very weird, I'm using the same version but no issues, have you tried using the whole git url: cargo generate https://github.com/esp-rs/esp-idf-template cargo? And also, to test some other thing, can you try generating esp-template cargo generate -a esp-rs/esp-template?

[SergioGasquez]

Hi @zdl361, have you tried any of the suggested solutions?

[zdl361]

@SergioGasquez

[SergioGasquez]

To be honest, I don't have any idea of what can be happening, I would suggest trying any other cargo-generate template, for example: https://github.com/rust-github/template or any https://github.com/topics/cargo-generate.

Also, I might be worth to try running the command in bash.

To me, this looks more like a cargo-generate issue.

[ivmarkov]

Closing as this is the only ever reported crash with cargo-generate and it is anyway an upstream problem.

Enhancing esp-idf-template to work also without cargo-generate is not an option, as an isolated crash on one developer machine with it is not enough of an evidence that we need to do such a big shift.