How to use trunk crate/cli using rules_rust

[flynneva]

I've got rules_rust all setup and working for my personal website here that id like to b build it as a static site and deploy the built dist/ folder - built with trunk build.

I'm using the latest rules_rust release I think and bzlmod too using the from_cargo approach to pull in crates.

The problem im getting to is if I try and add the trunk crate to the Cargo.toml file and run bazel query @crates//......its not listed for some reason.

I think its because the crate only provides an "installable" CLI binary and not an actual library.

Is there a way to somehow get this trunk CLI executable as a Bazel target, without having to break hermicity/still pull it in using rules_rust? I couldn't find an example of this situation anywhere in the rules_rust docs unfortunately...thats why im asking here.

Thanks in advanced 🙏🏼

[flynneva]

You can sort of see what im trying to do in the latest CI run in the deploy job