@@ -166,12 +166,22 @@ you can find the Rust executables in a directory like
166166` "C:\Program Files\Rust stable GNU 1.x\bin" ` .
167167
168168Rust does not do its own linking, and so you’ll need to have a linker
169- installed. Doing so will depend on your specific system, consult its
170- documentation for more details.
171-
172- If not, there are a number of places where we can get help. The easiest is
173- [ the #rust-beginners IRC channel on irc.mozilla.org] [ irc-beginners ] and for
174- general discussion [ the #rust IRC channel on irc.mozilla.org] [ irc ] , which we
169+ installed. Doing so will depend on your specific system. For
170+ Linux-based systems, Rust will attempt to call ` cc ` for linking. On
171+ ` windows-msvc ` (Rust built on Windows with Microsoft Visual Studio),
172+ this depends on having [ Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools] [ msvbt ]
173+ installed. These do not need to be in ` %PATH% ` as ` rustc ` will find
174+ them automatically. In general, if you have your linker in a
175+ non-traditional location you can call `rustc
176+ linker=/path/to/cc` , where ` /path/to/cc` should point to your linker path.
177+
178+ [ msvbt ] : http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools
179+
180+ If you are still stuck, there are a number of places where we can get
181+ help. The easiest is
182+ [ the #rust-beginners IRC channel on irc.mozilla.org] [ irc-beginners ]
183+ and for general discussion
184+ [ the #rust IRC channel on irc.mozilla.org] [ irc ] , which we
175185can access through [ Mibbit] [ mibbit ] . Then we'll be chatting with other
176186Rustaceans (a silly nickname we call ourselves) who can help us out. Other great
177187resources include [ the user’s forum] [ users ] and [ Stack Overflow] [ stackoverflow ] .
0 commit comments