Using Rust on Windows

As of release 0.10, Rust still depends on GCC for platform linker and C runtime libraries, so you will need to install one before installing Rust itself. Follow these instructions to set up the environment, then run the [installer].

MinGW

The current recommended way of obtaining Rust's prerequisites is by using the mingw-w64 installers from the mingw-builds project. The official Rust build bots are using such an installer from late March, 2014.

1. Download and run mingw-builds-install.exe.
2. Choose installation options: architecture=x32, threads=posix, exceptions=dwarf.
3. Now just download and run the Rust installer.
4. Use Rust compiler from mingw-builds terminal (there will be a shortcut in the Start menu), or add <mingw-builds>\mingw32\bin directory to your PATH.