Rust in Thunderbird

• Managing Thunderbird’s Cargo workspace
  • Updating dependencies
  • Sync the vendored dependencies
• Adding a Rust crate to Thunderbird
  • Building the crate
  • Managing a crate’s dependencies
    • Adding dependencies on internal crates
    • Synchronizing dependencies
• Using XPCOM within a Rust component
  • Implementing an XPCOM interface in Rust
    • Implementing the interface in a struct
    • Using XPCOM-compatible types
    • Exposing the method as XPCOM
    • Writing a constructor for the struct
    • Registering the XPCOM component
  • Instantiating and using objects through XPCOM in Rust
    • The xpcom crate
    • References on new instances or existing services
    • Calling methods on XPCOM objects
      • Handling output with getter_addrefs
      • Mapping return values of XPCOM methods
    • Casting between XPCOM interfaces
  • Build the Cargo documentation for internal crates