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

[Christian Svedin]

If someone else is having the same problem, here is how i solved it:
I got an executable statically linked against the runtime by adding to to my .cargo/config file

[target.x86_64-pc-windows-msvc]
rustflags = ["-C", "target-feature=+crt-static"]

On Wed, 2019-04-03 at 14:45 +0200, Jiri Vanek wrote:

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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