Merge pull request #1891 from FidelSch/c-static-link

config: statically link C runtime for Windows MSVC

Author: tmccombs

.cargo/config.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# On Windows MSVC, statically link the C runtime so that the resulting EXE does
+# not depend on the vcruntime DLL.
+#
+# See: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/issues/1874
+
+[target.x86_64-pc-windows-msvc]
+rustflags = ["-C", "target-feature=+crt-static"]
+[target.i686-pc-windows-msvc]
+rustflags = ["-C", "target-feature=+crt-static"]

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 ## Changes
 
 - Minimum required rust version has been increased to 1.90.0. Notably, this means dropping fully support for intel Mac and Windows 7.
+- Statically link the CRT for MSVC builds via Cargo config to avoid runtime DLL dependencies, see #1874 (@FidelSch)
 
 
 ## Other