Install Rust on windows without downloading Visual C++ build tools

- Download Rust from rust-lang website.
- Once the download is completed go through the installation procedure for msys2. it will take a minute or two
- open msys2
- First thing is you got to download mingw toolchain as rust requires cc linker
- `pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain`
- also you have to install base-devel. I thas tools for building and linking such as automake, bison, gcc, gzip, libtool , etc
- `pacman -S base-devel`
- Head to rust installation
- select no 2. manually install the prerequisites
- Yes
- Then Customize installation
- Host triple should be x86_64-pc-windows-gnu

- create a file `.cargo/config` and enter the following details. I will use vscode for that. Location for me is C:/Users/ashis/.cargo create a file `.config` and append the following

```
[target.x86_64-pc-windows-gnu]

```

[josgtg]

I was going to give up on rust. I can't afford a new pc and the normal installation didn't worked on my old machine, but thanks to this video I could use the 32 bit mingw version. Again, thanks!!!

[jahbless]

Thank you very much, I want to learn rust but when I saw that I had to install VS with 5GB I thought: It will be for another time, but searching I found your video. and it worked perfect.

[btdat]

Awesome video. No need to install Visual C++ which takes huge space!

[ugliBoro]

A really great video! Wanted to install rust in my new pc, decided to know if I can somehow switch it with mingw's gcc. This video did help me have a good start. Keep it up brother!

[TrolleningIshraq]

Thanks! This was very simple and concise to follow.

[ugliBoro]

finally found this video again... got myself new pc and now another setup! nice brother!

[rickythegermanshepherd]

Thanks a lot. Finally I can start learning rust.

[fasikunvictor]

Thanks, I could not afford to download 5gb Visual build tools, and this video helped me

[overrevvv]

Hey man great video, you're a life saver dude.

[matyasmarkkovacs]

Thanks!
For me it worked without MSYS2 and MinGW toolchains. Rust probably downloaded it automatically.

[quarkedstuff]

Tnx a lot. I was already wondering where I'd get the bandwidth for MSVC download.

[prateekSpace]

this is best way! coz visual studio based dependency tools takes lots of disk space!
Thanks!

[corewwwi]

is `std::os::windows` compilable from mingw?
like try compiling the windows-rs crate...

[DailyFrankPeter]

How would I uninstall it if I ever need to?

[AdityaGupta-cbii]

I need your help
Please reply me.. any social media urs?