"message": "failed to parse manifest at /Users/tz/Downloads/cortex-m-quickstart-master/Cargo.toml",

[taozhiwei21]

tz@taodeMacBook-Pro cortex-m-quickstart-master % cargo build --target thumbv7m-none-eabi
error: failed to parse manifest at /Users/tz/Downloads/cortex-m-quickstart-master/Cargo.toml

Caused by:
invalid character { in package name: {{project-name}}, the first character must be a Unicode XID start character (most letters or _)
tz@taodeMacBook-Pro cortex-m-quickstart-master %

"/Users/tz/Downloads/cortex-m-quickstart-master/Cargo.toml", "owner": "rust-file:///Users/tz/Downloads/cortex-m-quickstart-master", "severity": 8, "message": "failed to parse manifest at /Users/tz/Downloads/cortex-m-quickstart-master/Cargo.toml", "startLineNumber": 1, "startColumn": 1, "endLineNumber": 10000, "endColumn": 1 }]

[newAM]

It looks like that repository was a direct clone, that field usually gets filled by cargo generate.

Try this:

cargo generate --git https://github.com/rust-embedded/cortex-m-quickstart

Install instructions for cargo generate are in the README 👍

[newAM]

Did that work for you @taozhiwei21 ? Happy to help if you run into more problems.