Added info on Windows installation dependencies (2018 ed) #1478
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Currently, if you follow the installation instructions, you vaguely get instructed to install VC++. If you only install VC++ 17 (on Windows 10 at least), `rustc` can't find a proper linker ([see here](rust-lang/rustup#1003 (comment))) There is a number of issues with the rust compiler not being able to find a linker on Windows, for the Hello World tutorial ([example 1](rust-lang/rustup#1455), [example 2](rust-lang/rustup#1363), [example 3](rust-lang/rust#43039)). Maybe this clarification will help.
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The comment of mine you linked to is from 2017; we absolutely support VS 2017 nowadays. Thanks for the patch but I can't take it! |
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Currently, if you follow the installation instructions, you vaguely get instructed to install VC++. If you only install VC++ 17 (on Windows 10 at least),
rustccan't find a proper linker (see here)There is a number of issues with the rust compiler not being able to find a linker on Windows, for the Hello World tutorial (example 1, example 2, example 3). Maybe this clarification will help.
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2018 Edition
The 2018 is a "living" edition; it's not scheduled for in-print publication at
this time, and so is able to be updated at any time. We'd love pull requests to
fix issues with this edition, but we're not interested in extremely large
changes without discussing them first. If you'd like to make a big change,
please open an issue first! We'd hate for you to do some hard work that we
ultimately wouldn't accept.
Second edition
No Starch Press has brought the second edition to print. Pull requests fixing
factual errors will be accepted and documented as errata; pull requests changing
wording or other small corrections should be made against the 2018 edition instead.
First edition
The first edition is frozen, and no longer accepting changes. Pull requests
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