Don't create .msi installer for gnullvm hosts by mati865 · Pull Request #141818 · rust-lang/rust (original) (raw)

Sorry for not giving the full context here, I thought I had included it here in the previous comments, but it must have been a different issue/PR/channel.

Let me fix that.
My idea is to create the initial release with host tools for 86_64 and AArch64 windows-gnullvm triples using Linux host. It's the easiest way to achieve that (the possibility to run the containers locally helps a lot), but that means MSI installers are not achievable.
Once the host toolchain for these targets is present in the beta channel, Linux jobs for cross-compiling it would be replaced by native Windows jobs. Windows-gnullvm from that point forward would host themselves, so creating MSI installers becomes possible.