Unresolved import for a crate on crates.io
⚓ Rust 📅 2025-07-07 👤 surdeus 👁️ 17I have published a crate (serial_traits), and I want to use it for my other projects.
However, if I do use serial_traits, I get red underlines with this hover popup:
unresolved import `serial_traits`
if you wanted to use a crate named `serial_traits`, use `cargo add serial_traits` to add it to your `Cargo.toml`
The problem is that this error message is contradicting Cargo.toml:
[package]
name = "common"
version = "0.1.0"
edition = "2024"
[dependencies]
glam = "0.30.4"
serial_traits = "1.1.0"
This is a workplace, and the common crate with its dependencies was initialized with the following commands:
cargo new common --lib
cargo add glam
cargo add serial_traits
An extra thing I have done is that I added net_structs.rs (where I am trying to use serial_traits in), which I have let VSCode know the existence of by putting pub mod net_structs; in lib.rs.
I saw that others have had the same or similar problem and solved it (like this one) and I tried their solutions.
Their suggestions did not work.
Something I have noticed is that occasionally, after changing edition (trying other editions), rust-analyzer would temporarily accept that serial_traits exists.
And yet, cargo test and cargo build would still give this output:
error[E0432]: unresolved import `serial_traits`
>cargo test
Compiling glam v0.30.4
Compiling serial_traits v1.1.0
Compiling common v0.1.0 (C:\Users\[me]\Projects\Git Repos\wasm_2dtestmpgame\common)
error[E0432]: unresolved import `serial_traits`
--> common\src\net_structs.rs:2:5
|
2 | use serial_traits::Serializable;
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ use of unresolved module or unlinked crate `serial_traits`
|
= help: if you wanted to use a crate named `serial_traits`, use `cargo add serial_traits` to add it to your `Cargo.toml`
For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0432`.
error: could not compile `common` (lib) due to 1 previous error
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
The cargo build and cargo test commands were ran after cargo cleaning, and it shows that serial_traits successfully compiles.
Other things I have tried out, repeatedly, in arbitrary orders:
- Restarting
VSCode - Closing and reopening
Command Prompt cargo clean- Removing and readding
serial_traits rustup update- Directly copy and pasting the crate name from and to several places in case I wrote it wrong
Is there something I am missing? Maybe during the publishing process?
I have no idea what other options even exist, and I don't want to clone copies of my crate into each project I want to use it in.
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