Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2026, #09)

From: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date: Jan 29, 2026, 23:25 UTC
Message-ID: <aXvsb43Wq-YIYaVr@fruit.crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cStjN15WEKSN3b5VGLK-+N5pzj-dUDQ2rm15ne_9Q07FQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 2026-01-29 at 22:51:40, Eric Sunshine wrote:

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> On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 5:01 PM brian m. carlson
> <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:
> > I did not get a Windows VM working but I did discover the problem and
> > I'm working on a patch and will send it out once I have CI green.
> >
> > The problem is roughly that both the MSVC linker and MSYS linker are
> > both called link.exe.  When compiling with Rust against MSVC, the MSVC
> > linker must be used, but the MSYS linker is first in PATH (because I
> > believe installing the Git for Windows SDK causes that to be the case),
> > causing build.rs to fail to compile.
> 
> Didn't Ezekiel already tackle[*] this problem or am I misunderstanding?

CI still fails when rebasing my branch on `master`, so it doesn't appear to have made it upstream quite yet. I'll resume working on this tomorrow at $DAYJOB and then add a patch to my series. I may steal the approach from Ezekiel's patch if it appears to work.

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brian m. carlson (they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA