Chris Denton
Chris Denton
Fixes #695 If there is no default msvc version file, then this falls back to searching for other version files. This fixes an issue discovered in https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/issues/3024 where installing anything...
Reported here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/issues/3024 A brief investigation shows this line to be the problem: https://github.com/rust-lang/cc-rs/blob/53272c5953cf0d8d6bfe7252935f9ff6fca56ce2/src/windows_registry.rs#L461-L462 If the Visual Studio 2022 does not have the MSVC 2022 build tools then `Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.default.txt` may...
This helps to avoid false positives from file paths that just so happen to include the magic strings. It's done by detecting if the file is actually a pipe and...
This adds a dedicated page for explaining the install process, starting with a brief overview and then a step-by-step walkthrough for those that want more details or further clarification. This...
### Problem you are trying to solve While rustup will now offer to automatically install Visual Studio, this is not the right option for all users (for licensing or other...
- [x] I have checked the latest `main` branch to see if this has already been fixed - [x] I have searched existing issues and pull requests for duplicates URL...
As [the documentation notes](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/vec/struct.Vec.html#method.leak), `Vec::leak` hasn't allocated since 1.57. cc @Ericson2314 in case I'm missing something.
[From rust's std](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/864bdf7843e1ceabc824ed86d97006acad6af643/library/std/src/backtrace.rs#L344-L346): > If no frames came out assume that this is an unsupported platform since `backtrace` doesn't provide a way of learning this right now This seems like...
The advantage of dbghelp.dll is that it can nearly always be found on any Windows system. However, the major disadvantage is it's [ridiculously single threaded](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/about-dbghelp): > Note that all [DbgHelp...
There's been a bit of discussion recently spread across a number of PRs[^1] so I'd like to centralize discussion and explain my position here. What follows is my view of...