How to Configure WSL2 for build rustc Using Visual Studio Build Tools on Windows?

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I use wsl2-ubuntu to build the rustc compiler.
To compile for windows target:

./x build --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

I need VS Build Tools, which I have installed on windows.

Initially ubuntu required link.exe and I set the path to it in the PATH variable
In bashrc I added:

export PATH=$PATH:/mnt/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Microsoft\ Visual\ Studio/2022/BuildTools/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.40.33807/bin/Hostx64/x64

This solved the problem with link.exe, but a new one appeared:

          LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'kernel32.lib'
          
note: `link.exe` returned an unexpected error

note: you may need to install Visual Studio build tools with the "C++ build tools" workload

error: could not compile `std` (lib) due to 1 previous error
Build completed unsuccessfully in 0:00:17

Is there any possibility to connect to linux all necessary tools for compilation under windows for rustc build?

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