IcedTea-Web: Building a portable rust-launcher on windows

[Jiri Vanek]

On 4/3/19 2:36 PM, Christian Svedin wrote:
> I have built icedtea-web locally on windows from the icedtea-web-1.8-branchpoint tag.
> I get a rust-launcher that's 370 kB big, compared to the one in the msi package for your 1.8 release
> which is about 10 times bigger.
> 
> My guess is that mine is dynamically linked and yours is statically linked. On some machines I get
> errors about missing vcruntime-libraries.

Likely.  Up to now, I thought rust is not (currently) capable of dynamic linking.
> 
> Are there any flags I should use when building, or do I need to install anything to get statically
> linked .exe files?

Nothoing I know about. On both win and linux I run just cargo build.  See makefiles.
> Maybe I should use another version of the rust compiler or cargo? I have rustc version 1.31.1 and
> cargo version 1.31.0


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