At my new Windows 10 machine, I installed Microsoft Build Tools 2015 and Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 but still can not run the rust app, and telling me the build tool is required! [Capture]

Run cargo from the dev shell for the build tools and I believe it should work. Run your ide from that shell to get the correct environment. It's a bit of a pain but :woman_shrugging: once you get into the rhythm of it all it stops being very annoying.

I got the below error, is it related or something else? D:\Rust\my_app>cargo +nightly build Compiling rayon-core v1.4.1 Compiling winapi v0.3.6 Compiling serde v1.0.79 Compiling httparse v1.3.2 error: linking with `link.exe` failed: exit code: 1181 | = note: "C:\\Program Files (x86)…

I just set up a new computer with VS2017, and it worked for me. Just to double check, do you have all of these checkboxes checked? [snip]

Thanks. Actually I installed initially Visual C++ ALT ... and Visual C++ MFC ... as well as MS Build 2015. Now I installed Windows 10 SDK and Visual C++ tools and it is working correctly. Thanks

EDIT: I see you got it sorted. Ignore the question. :smiley: Looks like you're using the 32-bit linker. Is your rust setup for 64-bit?

What build tool for WIndows is required

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steveklabnik September 24, 2018, 8:42pm 7

The ATL is useful if you want to work on rustc itself; I believe you need it as well. Glad you got it going!

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