This page (served at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html) is the first hit I get when searching "cargo crate-type". The doc which actually explains `crate-type`, https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/linkage.html, does not appear in the first page of results. I hope that linking the reference doc here will make it easier for others to find instead of having to dig into closed GitHub issues like I did to find it.
You can run individual executable examples with the command `cargo run --example
<example-name>`.
-Specify `crate-type` to make an example be compiled as a library:
+Specify `crate-type` to make an example be compiled as a library (additional
+information about crate types is available in
+[the Cargo reference](https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/linkage.html)):
```toml
[[example]]