Instructions provided by rustup-init.exe don't lead to a working install anymore

[cswinter]

The Windows installer suggests downloading the Visual C++ Build Tools 2015 from https://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools which gives a 404.
A quick google didn't manage to turn up any working links to the standalone installer.

[cswinter]

Hmm https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/ refers me to https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/ for older versions. Clicking on the download button on that page requires me to log in to a microsoft account after which I am greeted by this page:

The old downloads don't seem to have an option for the community edition which might be why.

[cswinter]

Further googling turned up this page https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48159 which allows you to download "Microsoft Build Tools 2015"

[cswinter]

Compiling with cargo now spews out massive error: linking with link.exe failed: exit code: 1 errors so presumably that doesn't actually install the right thing :/

[cswinter]

For reference:
error: linking with link.exe failed: exit code: 1
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= note: "link.exe" "/NOLOGO" "/NXCOMPAT" "/LIBPATH:C:\Users\cleme\.rustup\toolchains\nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib" "C:\Users\cleme\src\LocustDB\target\debug\build\heapsize-1b72f00bbd2c86b4\build_script_build-1b72f00bbd2c86b4.build_script_build0.rcgu.o" "C:\Users\cleme\src\LocustDB\target\debug\build\heapsize-1b72f00bbd2c86b4\build_script_build-1b72f00bbd2c86b4.build_script_build1.rcgu.o" "C:\Users\cleme\src\LocustDB\target\debug\build\heapsize-1b72f00bbd2c86b4\build_script_build-1b72f00bbd2c86b4.build_script_build10.rcgu.o" "C:\Users\cleme\src\LocustDB\target\debug\build\heapsize-1b72f00bbd2c86b4\build_script_build-1b72f00bbd2c86b4.build_script_build11.rcgu.o" "C:\Users\cleme\src\LocustDB\target\debug\build\heapsize-1b72f00bbd2c86b4\build_script_build-1b72f00bbd2c86b4.build_script_build12.rcgu.o" "C:\Users\cleme\src\LocustDB\target\debug\build\heapsize-1b72f00bbd2c86b4\build_script_build-1b72f00bbd2c86b4.build_script_build13.rcgu.o" "C:\Users\cleme\src\LocustDB\target\debug\build\heapsize-1b72f00bbd2c86b4\build_script_build-1b72f00bbd2c86b4.build_script_build14.rcgu.o" "C:\Users\cleme\src\LocustDB\target\debug\build\heapsize-1b72f00bbd2c86b4\build_script_build-1b72f00bbd2c86b4.build_script_build15.rcgu.o" "C:\Users\cleme\src\LocustDB\target\debug\build\heapsize-1b72f00bbd2c86b4\build_script_build-1b72f00bbd2c86b4.build_script_build2.rcgu.o" "C:\Users\cleme\src\LocustDB\target\debug\build\heapsize-1b72f00bbd2c86b4\build_script_build-1b72f00bbd2c86b4.build_script_build3.rcgu.o" "C:\Users\cleme\src\LocustDB\target\debug\build\heapsize-1b72f00bbd2c86b4\build_script_build-1b72f00bbd2c86b4.build_script_build4.rcgu.o" "C:\Users\cleme\src\LocustDB\target\debug\build\heapsize-1b72f00bbd2c86b4\build_script_build-1b72f00bbd2c86b4.build_script_build5.rcgu.o" "C:\Users\cleme\src\LocustDB\target\debug\build\heapsize-1b72f00bbd2c86b4\build_script_build-1b72f00bbd2c86b4.build_script_build6.rcgu.o" "C:\Users\cleme\src\LocustDB\target\debug\build\heapsize-1b72f00bbd2c86b4\build_script_build-1b72f00bbd2c86b4.build_script_build7.rcgu.o" "C:\Users\cleme\src\LocustDB\target\debug\build\heapsize-1b72f00bbd2c86b4\build_script_build-1b72f00bbd2c86b4.build_script_build8.rcgu.o" "C:\Users\cleme\src\LocustDB\target\debug\build\heapsize-1b72f00bbd2c86b4\build_script_build-1b72f00bbd2c86b4.build_script_build9.rcgu.o" "/OUT:C:\Users\cleme\src\LocustDB\target\debug\build\heapsize-1b72f00bbd2c86b4\build_script_build-1b72f00bbd2c86b4.exe" "C:\Users\cleme\src\LocustDB\target\debug\build\heapsize-1b72f00bbd2c86b4\build_script_build-1b72f00bbd2c86b4.crate.allocator.rcgu.o" "/OPT:REF,NOICF" "/DEBUG" "/NATVIS:C:\Users\cleme\.rustup\toolchains\nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib\rustlib\etc\intrinsic.natvis" "/NATVIS:C:\Users\cleme\.rustup\toolchains\nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib\rustlib\etc\liballoc.natvis" "/NATVIS:C:\Users\cleme\.rustup\toolchains\nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib\rustlib\etc\libcore.natvis" "/LIBPATH:C:\Users\cleme\src\LocustDB\target\debug\deps" "/LIBPATH:C:\Users\cleme\.rustup\toolchains\nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib" "C:\Users\cleme\.rustup\toolchains\nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib\libstd-26ec27827ae0ca62.rlib" "C:\Users\cleme\.rustup\toolchains\nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib\libpanic_unwind-e34d54f3f9fdb6ac.rlib" "C:\Users\cleme\.rustup\toolchains\nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib\libunwind-419a8101e2d3fa6d.rlib" "C:\Users\cleme\.rustup\toolchains\nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib\liblibc-c0a4078a0099457d.rlib" "C:\Users\cleme\.rustup\toolchains\nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib\liballoc_system-d5549d68e4c6523f.rlib" "C:\Users\cleme\.rustup\toolchains\nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib\liballoc-73a63b968e0bb534.rlib" "C:\Users\cleme\.rustup\toolchains\nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib\libcore-eb374a3dfd2a7a7f.rlib" "C:\Users\cleme\.rustup\toolchains\nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib\libcompiler_builtins-fe8341acd189dfc1.rlib" "advapi32.lib" "ws2_32.lib" "userenv.lib" "shell32.lib" "msvcrt.lib"
= note: /usr/bin/link: extra operand ‘/LIBPATH:C:\Users\cleme\.rustup\toolchains\nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib’
Try '/usr/bin/link --help' for more information.

[cswinter]

I managed to get things working by getting the microsoft-visual-cpp-build-tools from chocolatey: https://chocolatey.org/packages/microsoft-visual-cpp-build-tools
This does require you to also install chocolatey first (and maybe Python).

[mattico]

Thanks, Microsoft, for breaking your URLs.

It seems hard to find a reliable URL to point to for the 2015 build tools, so we could probably start recommending the 2017 ones:

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2017

Though who knows how long that URL will survive.

[mattico]

There's also this URL: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=840931. I'm not a Microsofter but I believe go.microsoft.com is their system to provide permalinks which redirect to the correct destination for their given content. Hopefully if they change the Visual Studio landing page again they'll update that redirect accordingly.

[Diggsey]

Should be fixed in 1.12