From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 11:22:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] ci(gitlab,windows): provide GNU Rust's host-linker support
Message-ID: <arUH3Bi26yyVcrOb@pks.im>
In-Reply-To: <1ed79f00cf72b2d5f2e5f55bb11de51dceeeb2bb.1789819933.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Sat, Sep 19, 2026 at 12:12:13PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> 
> GitLab's MinGW job cannot find `x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc` when linking
> gitcore's build script:
> https://gitlab.com/dscho/git1/-/jobs/16593470275
> 
> Although gitcore is a static library, Cargo first links `build.rs`
> as a host executable. We omitted the GNU MSI's `Gcc` feature, which
> supplies the required linker and platform libraries:
> https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/1.96.0/src/etc/installer/msi/rust.wxs

Hm. Does that mean that we now have two versions of GCC available, once
via the MinGW environment and once via Rust?

Thanks!

Patrick