1513153 - Allow users to more easily install a compiler/linker when installing Rust on Windows

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(DevTools :: General, enhancement)

Description

[ross]

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch01-01-installation.html#installing-rustup-on-windows contains the link https://www.rust-lang.org/install.html which is 404. Perhaps this is referring to https://forge.rust-lang.org/other-installation-methods.html .

Also, for a better user experience, the user should be able to install a compiler/linker via rustup, or a similarly easy method. Also, there is no installer for Windows users on arm.

Comment 1

[Simon Sapin (:SimonSapin)]

The 404 error exists because www.rust-lang.org was recently redesigned. It should be fixed by https://github.com/rust-lang/www.rust-lang.org/pull/597 (which adds a redirect to https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install).

Bug 1123821 proposes making Mozilla’s `./mach bootstrap` able to install the MSVC compiler/linker/SDK required to build Firefox.

If you mean using Rust outside of Firefox/Mozilla, then this is not the appropriate bug tracker. You may want one of:

* For the website: https://github.com/rust-lang/www.rust-lang.org/issues
* For rustup: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup.rs/issues
* For Rust in general, or if in doubt: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/
* For something closer to a discussion than a bug report: https://internals.rust-lang.org/

I think there has been some discussions (or at least desire) of having a new environment "just work" for various platforms after installing only rustup, but I couldn’t find a tracking issue for this.

Unfortunately, according to https://forge.rust-lang.org/platform-support.html there is not support at all for Rust on Windows ARM. If you want to ship binaries to Windows ARM users I’d recommend looking into cross-compilation from a Windows Intel machine. You’ll need to cross-compile the Rust standard library yourself (in addition to your own code). If however you want to build on Windows ARM, then you’ll need to bootstrap by cross-compiling an entire toolchain (at least rustc and cargo) in addition to the standard library.

Comment 2

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

Thanks for the detailed comment, Simon!

Ross, if you want to have more information or file a follow-up bug, please do so in the aforementioned repositories. Thanks :-)

Closing this bug as invalid.