Crate thound

Hello, sailor!

The purpose of this is to find the folders that contain libraries you may need to link against, on Windows, if you are linking with any compiled C or C++ code. This will be necessary for many non-C++ programming language environments that wnat to provide compatibility.

We find the following:

• place where the Visual Studio libraries live (e.g. libvcruntime.lib)
• where the linker and compiler executables live (e.g. link.exe)
• where the Windows SDK libraries reside (e.g. kernel32.lib, libucrt.lib)

We all with you didn’t have to worry about so many weird dependencies, but we don’t erally have a choice about this, sadly.

Notes

One other shortcut I took is that this is hardcoded to return the folders for x64 libraries. If enough people want x86 or arm, it can be worked in here.

Unsafe usage

This crate contains unsafe code as we speak to the Windows APIs & COM, which is unsafe by definition.

Supported platforms

We support Windows & Visual Studio only, as those are the main reasons for this crate to exist.

If your need is bigger than this, you might go check the cc crate.

Structs

Info

Information about Windows SDK and VC toolchain.

SdkInfo

Information about Windows SDK.

ToolchainInfo

Information about VC toolchain.

Functions

find_vc_and_windows_sdk

Tries to detect the available VC toolchain and latest Windows SDK, returns the result as a Info.