How do I create a global, mutable singleton?

Question

What is the best way to create and use a struct with only one instantiation in the system? Yes, this is necessary, it is the OpenGL subsystem, and making multiple copies of

Answer 1

Answering my own duplicate question .

Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
lazy_static = "1.4.0"

Crate root ( lib.rs ):

#[macro_use]
extern crate lazy_static;

Initialization ( no need for unsafe block ):

/// EMPTY_ATTACK_TABLE defines an empty attack table, useful for initializing attack tables
pub const EMPTY_ATTACK_TABLE: AttackTable = [
    0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
    0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
];

lazy_static! {
    /// KNIGHT_ATTACK is the attack table of knight
    pub static ref KNIGHT_ATTACK: AttackTable = {
        let mut at = EMPTY_ATTACK_TABLE;
        for sq in 0..BOARD_AREA{
            at[sq] = jump_attack(sq, &KNIGHT_DELTAS, 0);
        }
        at
    };
    ...

EDIT:

Managed to solve it with once_cell, which does not need a macro.

Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
once_cell = "1.3.1"

square.rs:

use once_cell::sync::Lazy;

...

/// AttackTable type records an attack bitboard for every square of a chess board
pub type AttackTable = [Bitboard; BOARD_AREA];

/// EMPTY_ATTACK_TABLE defines an empty attack table, useful for initializing attack tables
pub const EMPTY_ATTACK_TABLE: AttackTable = [
    0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
    0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
];

/// KNIGHT_ATTACK is the attack table of knight
pub static KNIGHT_ATTACK: Lazy = Lazy::new(|| {
    let mut at = EMPTY_ATTACK_TABLE;
    for sq in 0..BOARD_AREA {
        at[sq] = jump_attack(sq, &KNIGHT_DELTAS, 0);
    }
    at
});