| 13 Jul 2025 |
 rosssmyth | You can always try this thingy I made a few weeks ago
https://github.com/RossSmyth/nur/tree/main/msvc-rust
I need to put some more work into it probably. | 02:40:57 |
| rosssmyth | Some of the situation with Windows would be eased if nixpkgs switched to the ucrt as it is not quite as cursed | 02:41:41 |
 Andrew | In reply to @rosssmyth:matrix.org
You can always try this thingy I made a few weeks ago
https://github.com/RossSmyth/nur/tree/main/msvc-rust
I need to put some more work into it probably. This is just rustc. I don't see it uses and of the msvc libraries or linker. | 07:07:35 |
| Andrew | Right now, I'm still using the container as I don't have time for more side quests. I'm already on one. | 07:08:37 |
 K900 | I had a similar thing set up with https://gitlab.com/K900/rust-cross-windows | 07:08:43 |
| K900 | But again this only handles pure Rust | 07:09:14 |
| K900 | You need to bring your own native deps built for MSVC | 07:09:23 |
| K900 | And that's where the fun starts | 07:09:27 |
| K900 | Or ends, depending on your definition of fun | 07:09:39 |
| K900 | @rosssmyth you may be interested for your own stuff though | 07:10:13 |
| K900 | It's significantly less janky | 07:10:17 |
| K900 | At least at a glance | 07:10:23 |
| Andrew | I just added slightly patched dx, and dependences: pkg-config, python3, nsis, libssl-dev. The image is 5.8 GiB though... I mount my cargo registry and project dir, which helps. The quick rebundle takes about 40 seconds. | 07:12:05 |
| Andrew | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
But again this only handles pure Rust Well, it has xwin, winsdk and the toolchain. The only thing missing from container is wine, I guess. | 07:16:30 |
| K900 | The problem is that you have native deps | 07:17:12 |
| K900 | Presumably | 07:17:13 |
| K900 | As in, deps that need to be built for Windows that are not Rust | 07:17:25 |
| Andrew | For now, I only have dependencies on weview2 | 07:17:45 |
| Andrew | Maybe openssl too, but I don't know if/how msvc uses it | 07:18:15 |
| Andrew | I do remember that several programs including mine depend on redistributable C++ runtime stuff. | 07:19:15 |
| Andrew | But that's it. | 07:19:21 |
| Andrew | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
As in, deps that need to be built for Windows that are not Rust Oh, I though pure rustc. Okay. But why no wine? Is it not needed? | 07:20:59 |
| Andrew | Theoretically this should work for my app. | 07:21:24 |
| K900 | Why do you need wine? | 07:21:36 |
| Andrew | Oh, I guess it's only for native tests... | 07:24:31 |
| Andrew | I guess I should try creating a separate image without it. should be a hell of a lot smaller. | 07:26:43 |
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