*-win7-windows-msvc
Tier: 3
Windows targets continuing support of windows7.
Target maintainers
- @roblabla
Requirements
This target supports all of core, alloc, std and test. This is automatically tested every night on private infrastructure hosted by the maintainer. Host tools may also work, though those are not currently tested.
Those targets follow Windows calling convention for extern "C".
Like any other Windows target, the created binaries are in PE format.
Building the target
You can build Rust with support for the targets by adding it to the target list in config.toml:
[build]
build-stage = 1
target = [ "x86_64-win7-windows-msvc" ]
Building Rust programs
Rust does not ship pre-compiled artifacts for this target. To compile for this
target, you will either need to build Rust with the target enabled (see
"Building the target" above), or build your own copy by using build-std
or
similar.
Testing
Created binaries work fine on Windows or Wine using native hardware. Remote
testing is possible using the remote-test-server
described here.
Cross-compilation toolchains and C code
Compatible C code can be built with either MSVC's cl.exe
or LLVM's clang-cl.
Cross-compilation is possible using clang-cl/lld-link. It also requires the
Windows SDK, which can be acquired using xwin
.
-
Install
clang-cl
andlld-link
on your machine, and make sure they are in your $PATH. -
Install
xwin
:cargo install xwin
-
Use
xwin
to install the Windows SDK:xwin splat --output winsdk
-
Create an
xwin-lld-link
script with the following content:#!/usr/bin/env bash set -e XWIN=/path/to/winsdk lld-link "$@" /libpath:$XWIN/crt/lib/x86_64 /libpath:$XWIN/sdk/lib/um/x86_64 /libpath:$XWIN/sdk/lib/ucrt/x86_64
-
Create an
xwin-clang-cl
script with the following content:#!/usr/bin/env bash set -e XWIN=/path/to/winsdk clang-cl /imsvc "$XWIN/crt/include" /imsvc "$XWIN/sdk/include/ucrt" /imsvc "$XWIN/sdk/include/um" /imsvc "$XWIN/sdk/include/shared" --target="x86_64-pc-windows-msvc" "$@"
-
In your config.toml, add the following lines:
[target.x86_64-win7-windows-msvc] linker = "path/to/xwin-lld-link" cc = "path/to/xwin-clang-cl"
You should now be able to cross-compile the Rust std, and any rust program.