cargo-xwinbuild 0.3.0

Cross compile Cargo project to Windows msvc target with ease

cargo-xwinbuild

Cross compile Cargo project to Windows msvc target with ease. (LLVM installation required.)

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Installation

cargo install cargo-xwinbuild

You can also install it using pip:

pip install cargo-xwinbuild

Usage

1. Install LLVM, on macOS: brew install llvm
2. Install Rust Windows msvc target via rustup, for example, rustup target add x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
3. Run cargo xwinbuild, for example, cargo xwinbuild --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

Customization

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

Environment Variable	CLI option	Description
XWIN_ARCH	--xwin-arch	The architectures to include, defaults to x86_64,aarch64, possible values: x86, x86_64, aarch, aarch64
XWIN_VARIANT	--xwin-variant	The variants to include, defaults to desktop, possible values: desktop, onecore, spectre
XWIN_VERSION	--xwin-version	The version to retrieve, defaults to 16, can either be a major version of 15 or 16, or a <major>.<minor> version
XWIN_CACHE_DIR	--xwin-cache-dir	xwin cache directory to put CRT and SDK files

CMake Support

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

ninja is required to enable CMake support.

License

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