xwin
msvc-llvm-nix
| xwin | msvc-llvm-nix | |
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| 5 | 1 | |
| 327 | 6 | |
| - | - | |
| 7.4 | 3.5 | |
| about 1 month ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Rust | Nix | |
| Apache License 2.0 | - |
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xwin
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Because cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively
There's tooling that mostly avoids this. https://github.com/Jake-Shadle/xwin
This is a utility that fixes a lot of the cross-compiling issues for windows by giving you a portable, unfucked naming, and not-massive SDK. It's the same SDK you get when you install MSVC but it's only a few hundred megs and the names are consistent even with all of Windows' fucked up tooling.
The only caveat is you need to provide your own compiler, in this case clang is often the best option.
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cargo-xwinbuild v0.3.0 supports cross compile to Windows with CMake dependency
cargo-xwinbuild is a thin wrapper of xwin provides a Cargo subcommand xwinbuild to make cross compiling to Windows MSVC target just work.
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Announcing cargo-xwinbuild: Cross compile Cargo project to Windows msvc target with ease
This situation bugs me a lot, and I remembered a blog post about the xwin which makes cross compiling Windows binaries from Linux quite easy, but it requires a lot of manual setup. While using Docker containers make it easier, it's also slower.
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Am I the only one who finds Rust to be centered around Linux? Any Windows devs want to share their experience with Rust?
I will do you one better. When I do windows development, I work within WSL and use the cross-compiler toolchain to generate windows binaries. I have found "Xwin" to be very useful for this: https://github.com/Jake-Shadle/xwin
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Blog post: Cross compiling Rust Windows binaries from Linux
I've just pushed a 0.1.1 release that fixes this issue, unsure why the windows crate decided to use screaming case in their link names but I'm sure they're not the only ones.
msvc-llvm-nix
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Blog post: Cross compiling Rust Windows binaries from Linux
Also, if anyone is interested, I have a nix flake for setting up an MSVC toolchain here. And here you can find a git repo containing the history of MSVC manifests, which can be useful for various reasons...
What are some alternatives?
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music-vibes - Desktop app for translating audio output into vibrations
cargo-xwin - Cross compile Cargo project to Windows MSVC target with ease
xlsxwriter-rs - Excel file writer for Rust
mxe - MXE (M cross environment)
open_safety - An application to assist with securing script execution
Umpire - Combat Quest of the Millennium
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
windows-rs - Rust for Windows
ntfs - An implementation of the NTFS filesystem in a Rust crate, usable from firmware level up to user-mode.