On 12-03-28 12:15 AM, Sebastian Sylvan wrote:

> This seems to work fine for me *if* I have MinGW\bin on the path.

Glad to hear the first part! And, yes, mingw. Thanks for reminding me, I
need to highlight this fact in release notes. A few people have stumbled
into it, and I forget that it's not a reliable assumption.

> I guess MinGW is still required to run rustc right now? Would
> be good if it was maybe installed by the installer.

Running mingw as a sub-installer is possible but it's outside the scope
of what we can engineer in this timeframe. For now it'll be release notes.

> Is it possible to link in gcc statically into the compiler on windows?
> I think I heard something about switching to MSVC in the long run, but
> as an intermediate step it would be good to get rid of fairly obscure
> (on windows) binaries as dependencies.

Nope. We might wind up taking a dependency on libclang at some point,
but I don't think gcc really enjoys being packaged up as a component of
another program that way. I certainly don't know how to do it; it'd be a
lot of work. Mingw is a requirement for using rust on windows right now.

-Graydon
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