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What's a main function?

In C programs, there's always a function named main that's called to start the application.

Mynewt OS is written in C, so Mynewt uses the same convention... It expects us to provide a C function named main that is called upon startup.

Our application is in Rust not C. We exposed our Rust function named main as a C function, like this...

extern "C" fn main()

Why is the main function in lib.rs not main.rs?

Our Rust Application is actually compiled into a Rust Library that's linked into Mynewt OS.

By convention, a Rust Library must have a lib.rs file that defines the Rust functions (and optionally, includes other Rust source files).

That's why our Rust main function is in lib.rs.

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