On 2026-01-29 at 22:51:40, Eric Sunshine wrote:

On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 5:01 PM brian m. carlson
[off-list ref] wrote:

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I did not get a Windows VM working but I did discover the problem and
I'm working on a patch and will send it out once I have CI green.

The problem is roughly that both the MSVC linker and MSYS linker are
both called link.exe.  When compiling with Rust against MSVC, the MSVC
linker must be used, but the MSYS linker is first in PATH (because I
believe installing the Git for Windows SDK causes that to be the case),
causing build.rs to fail to compile.

Didn't Ezekiel already tackle[*] this problem or am I misunderstanding?

CI still fails when rebasing my branch on `master`, so it doesn't appear
to have made it upstream quite yet.  I'll resume working on this
tomorrow at $DAYJOB and then add a patch to my series.  I may steal the
approach from Ezekiel's patch if it appears to work.
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brian m. carlson (they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA