MSVC WSL Rust

Cross compile Rust programs to the MSVC Windows target in WSL, inspired by msvc-wine-rust

Setup environment

In Windows:

Visit here:

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

Then download Visual Studio and then install Desktop development with C++ workload.

Or just download Build Tools for Visual Studio and then install C++ Build Tools workload.

In WSL:

First, add MSVC targets using rustup:

rustup target add x86_64-pc-windows-msvc 
rustup target add i686-pc-windows-msvc

Then, download the script to your WSL home:

git clone https://github.com/strickczq/msvc-wsl-rust.git msvc-linker
chmod a+x msvc-linker/*.sh

Last, edit linker config in msvc-linker/config.sh, it may vary from person to person, here is my config:

#!/bin/bash

# Name of WSL distro
# Find it in "\\wsl$\"
wsl_distro=Arch

# Version of Visual Studio you installed
vs_version=2019

# Version of MSVC tools
# Find it in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\$vs_version\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC"
tools_version=14.21.27702

# Version of Windows 10 SDK
# Find it in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Lib"
sdk_version=10.0.17763.0

How to compile

Compiling by rustc

For x86_64 target:

rustc -C linker="/path/to/msvc-linker/linker-x64.sh" --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc your_code.rs

For x86 target (Haven't tested yet):

rustc -C linker="/path/to/msvc-linker/linker-x86.sh" --target i686-pc-windows-msvc your_code.rs

Compiling by cargo

You need to put this into ~/.cargo/config first:

[target.x86_64-pc-windows-msvc]
linker = "/path/to/msvc-linker/linker-x64.sh"

[target.i686-pc-windows-msvc]
linker = "/path/to/msvc-linker/linker-x86.sh"

For x86_64 target:

cargo build --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

And for x86 target (Haven't tested yet):

cargo build --target i686-pc-windows-msvc

Test your exe directly in WSL

chmod a+x your.exe
./your.exe

License

Licensed under Apache License 2.0. For details, see the LICENSE file.