Need a way of specifying features for dependencies with cargo install

[kjeremy]

cargo install diesel_cli --no-default-features --features "sqlite" fails on my windows machine because a dependent crate libsqlite3-sys can't find the sqlite headers and libs. However that crate has a feature "bundled" which will compile it's own version of sqlite. I can get around this when running cargo build on my app with diesel as a dependency:

[dependencies]
diesel = { version = "0.16.0", features = ["sqlite"] }
diesel_codegen = { version = "0.16.0", features = ["sqlite"] }
libsqlite3-sys = { version="*", features=["bundled"]}

in the Cargo.toml of my app. However there does not appear to be a way to do this using cargo install.

[spease]

I also just ran into this issue reinstalling diesel. I've also opened a ticket there requesting a bundled feature for diesel itself

[weihanglo]

You should be able to specify features for optional dependency. Something like --features libsqlite3-sys/bundled. (-F for short)

So it would look like:

cargo install diesel_cli --no-default-features -F sqlite -F libsqlite3-sys/bundled

Given this issue is quite old and should have been resolved already by both diesel side and Cargo, I am going to close it. If it is wrong, please leave a comment and we can check it again.