Support finding Windows tools on non-Windows host by cavivie · Pull Request #907 · rust-lang/cc-rs (original) (raw)

This PR contains a simple implementation of building targets on non-Windows platform. it supports manually set environment variables to find Windows msvc tools.

By setting VCINSTALLDIR environment variable, we can search msvc tools simply, and resolve related issues:

• Failed to cross compile rust-openssl(openssl-src-rs) for windows msvc targets via cross-rs #797

Currently, this PR can be regarded as a draft implementation, and the implementation details may still be discussed.