fresh install on Windows 10, simple program gets linker error.

[Nuclearfossil]

Installation of Rust 1.5 on windows 10 machine via this link: https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-1.5.0-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.msi

Visual Studio 2013 and 2015 are already installed as well as the associated Visual Studio extensions for Rust.

Generate a simple test program, as follows:

helloworld.rs

fn main()
{
    println!("Hello World!");
}

Running rustc through the new rust shell as follows:

rustc helloworld.rs

emits the following:

D:\dev\rust\helloworld>rustc helloworld.rs
error: linking with `link.exe` failed: exit code: 1181
note: "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\VC/bin\\amd64\\link.exe" "/LIBPATH:C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\VC/lib\\amd64" "/LIBPATH:C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Windows Kits\\10\\Lib\\10.0.10586.0\\ucrt\\x64" "/NOLOGO" "/NXCOMPAT" "/LIBPATH:C:\\Program Files\\Rust stable 1.5\\bin\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib" "helloworld.0.o" "/OUT:helloworld.exe" "/OPT:REF,ICF" "/DEBUG" "/LIBPATH:C:\\Program Files\\Rust stable 1.5\\bin\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib" "/LIBPATH:D:\\dev\\rust\\helloworld\\.rust\\bin\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc" "/LIBPATH:D:\\dev\\rust\\helloworld\\bin\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc" "C:\\Program Files\\Rust stable 1.5\\bin\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\libstd-35c36e89.rlib" "C:\\Program Files\\Rust stable 1.5\\bin\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\libcollections-35c36e89.rlib" "C:\\Program Files\\Rust stable 1.5\\bin\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\librustc_unicode-35c36e89.rlib" "C:\\Program Files\\Rust stable 1.5\\bin\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\librand-35c36e89.rlib" "C:\\Program Files\\Rust stable 1.5\\bin\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\liballoc-35c36e89.rlib" "C:\\Program Files\\Rust stable 1.5\\bin\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\liballoc_system-35c36e89.rlib" "C:\\Program Files\\Rust stable 1.5\\bin\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\liblibc-35c36e89.rlib" "C:\\Program Files\\Rust stable 1.5\\bin\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\libcore-35c36e89.rlib" "ws2_32.lib" "userenv.lib" "advapi32.lib" "kernel32.lib" "shell32.lib" "msvcrt.lib" "compiler-rt.lib"
note: LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'ws2_32.lib'

error: aborting due to previous error

Any ideas?

[retep998]

Duplicate of #30229

[alexcrichton]

Indeed this is a dupe, thanks for the report though!

[Nuclearfossil]

No worries. I did do a search looking for those symptoms. Apparently my google-fu was weak yesterday.

[TomasHubelbauer]

@Nuclearfossil Did you actually resolve this? I followed the link to issue #30229 and then to this pull request. The way I understood it it was only necessary to run the vcvars64.bat file and things should work, so I did that, restarted Visual Studio (I also installed Rust through the MSVC MSI and am using the Rust extension for Visual Studio) and it didn't help. I'm getting the same error. Any pointers?

What sucks is that I don't get to use Rust at all this way, because cargo install for the first time attempts to update the registry which leads to it wanting to compile things which fails for the same reason.

[Nuclearfossil]

I've actually given up on Rust on the win32/64 platform for the time being.

On Sat, 26 Mar 2016 at 03:07 Tomáš Hübelbauer notifications@github.com
wrote:

@Nuclearfossil https://github.com/Nuclearfossil Did you actually
resolve this? I followed the link to issue #30229
#30229 and then to pull request
#135 #135. The way I understood
it it was only necessary to run the vcvars64.bat file and things should
work, so I did that, restarted Visual Studio (I also installed Rust through
the MSVC MSI and am using the Rust extension for Visual Studio) and it
didn't help. I'm getting the same error. A ny pointers?

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[TomasHubelbauer]

Thanks for the reply. :)

[qtamaki]

I try add component "C++/CLI Support" by VS2017 installer.

[retep998]

@qtamaki
"C++/CLI Support" is not the component you want. That merely installs Managed C++ which is very different from the native C++ toolchain that Rust relies on.