Blog post: Cross compiling Rust Windows binaries from Linux

• rust

  2,682 92,831 10.0 Rust

  Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

  

lld's windows support is... buggy. Like "can segfault your program if you look at it wrong" buggy. This makes me somewhat wary of using it.

• msvc-llvm-nix

  1 6 3.5 Nix

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...

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• msvc-manifest-history

  1 5 0.0

  Downloads MSVC manifests through github actions

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...

• cargo-deny

  15 1,550 8.8 Rust

  ❌ Cargo plugin for linting your dependencies 🦀

  

OpenSSL has been banned in our project for a variety of reasons via cargo-deny for around a year and half, it was actually one of the reasons we created it in the first place.

• xwin

  5 327 7.4 Rust

  A utility for downloading and packaging the Microsoft CRT headers and libraries, and Windows SDK headers and libraries needed for compiling and linking programs targeting Windows.

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.

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