formerly cargo-xwinbuild

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Cross compile Cargo project to Windows msvc target with ease.

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1. For pure Rust project, no prerequisites needed.
2. For C/C++ dependencies, install clang (On macOS run brew install llvm and you're good to go).
3. For assembly dependencies, install llvm-tools-preview component via rustup component add llvm-tools-preview or install llvm.

cargo install cargo-xwin

You can also install it using pip:

pip install cargo-xwin

We also provide a Docker image which has wine pre-installed in addition to cargo-xwin and Rust, for example to build for x86_64 Windows:

docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/io -w /io messense/cargo-xwin \
  cargo xwin build --release --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

1. Install Rust Windows msvc target via rustup, for example, rustup target add x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
2. Run cargo xwin build, for example, cargo xwin build --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

With wine installed, you can run tests with the cargo xwin test command, for example, cargo xwin test --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

The Microsoft CRT and Windows SDK can be customized using the following environment variables or CLI options.

Some Rust crates use the cmake crate to build C/C++ dependencies, cargo-xwin will generate a CMake toolchain file automatically to make cross compilation work out of the box.

ninja is required to enable CMake support.

This work is released under the MIT license. A copy of the license is provided in the LICENSE file.