*-windows-gnu
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Tier: 1/2 (with host tools)
Target triples available:
i686-pc-windows-gnu: Tier 2x86_64-pc-windows-gnu: Tier 1
Target maintainers
⚠️ These targets do not have any maintainers and are not properly maintained. ⚠️
If you are using this target, consider signing up to become a target maintainer. See the target tier policy for details. Without maintainers, these targets may be demoted in the future.
Requirements
These targets support std and host tools.
Unlike their MSVC counterparts, windows-gnu targets support cross-compilation and are free of all MSVC licensing implications.
They follow Windows calling convention for extern "C".
Like with any other Windows target, created binaries are in PE format.
C toolchain
The targets are built and tested using a reasonably modern C toolchain, and it should be considered as the oldest supported version:
- GNU Binutils 2.44
- GCC 14.2
- mingw-w64 12.0.0
- MSVCRT library as the default
Using older tools (especially Binutils) may not work properly, due to the number of issues plaguing older versions of Binutils. The supported toolchain versions are subject to change.
Building Rust programs
Rust does ship a pre-compiled std library for those targets. That means one can easily compile and cross-compile for those targets from other hosts if C proper toolchain is installed.