cargo-hdk

A subcommand of cargo for building Houdini plugins based on the Houdini Development Kit (HDK).

The purpose of this command line tool is to simplify building Rust plugins for Houdini using the HDK.

Features

Build a CMake based HDK plugin in a subdirectory (default is ./hdk) containing the CMakeLists.txt and the source code. The actual build artifacts are stored in a designated build subdirectory (so by default this is ./hdk/build).

Usage

To build the HDK plugin located in ./hdk, simply run

cargo hdk

For release builds use

cargo hdk --release

To use a different CMake generator like Ninja, use the --cmake option

cargo hdk --cmake '[-G Ninja]'

All arguments are expected to be within [ and ] brackets to avoid ambiguity with arguments passed directly to the cargo build command.