How do you fix cargo-leptos installation errors because of openssl-sys?

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Hi!

I'm a rust beginner trying to install cargo-leptos. I've installed cargo-leptos before, but I'm reinstalling it on a different device and I'm running into some difficulty.

I've installed openssl through Chocolatey, and these are my openssl related environment variables:

OPENSSL_CONF="C:\Program Files\OpenSSL-Win64\bin\openssl.cfg"
OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR="C:\Program Files\OpenSSL-Win64\include"
OPENSSL_LIB_DIR="C:\Program Files\OpenSSL-Win64\lib\VC\x64\MD"
OPENSSL_NO_VENDOR="1"

With these environment variables, I get an error like

OpenSSL libdir at ["C:\Program Files\OpenSSL-Win64\lib\VC\x64\MD"] does not contain the required files to either statically or dynamically link OpenSSL

When I set OPENSSL_STATIC="1", the error changes to

could not find native static library ssl, perhaps an -L flag is missing?

What am I doing wrong?
Could someone help me please?
Thanks in advance!

P. S.

I used this link as a reference, and from what I remembered from the last time I installed cargo-leptos, it worked. Now, it doesn't. Maybe I missed something?

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I installed openssl through MSYS2 instead (as per the "Windows GNU (MinGW)" section here openssl-sys 0.9.19 - Docs.rs), and the cargo-leptos install isn't failing at openssl-sys anymore!

These were my environment variables:
OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR="C:\tools\msys64\mingw64\include"
OPENSSL_LIB_DIR="C:\tools\msys64\mingw64\lib"
OPENSSL_NO_VENDOR="1"

Though openssl-sys is compiling, now, there's a different error that seems to be linker related.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79631914/installing-cargo-leptos-on-my-machine-windows-causes-a-linker-error/79632938#79632938