Linking XInput about winapi-rs HOT 7 CLOSED

Are you using a full MingW-w64 setup or are you relying on the toolchain bundled with Rust? The bundled toolchain only comes with a few libraries and if you need something that isn't there you have to ditch the bundled toolchain and setup a full MingW-w64 instead.

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Yeah, I'm just using the bundled rust distribution. Would that matter for linking against Windows libraries, though? Does the full MingW distribution do extra stuff to help find the libraries?

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In order to link to a library, even a Windows system library, you cannot link to a .dll directly, there needs to be a .lib or .a to link to. Thus when using MingW we depend on the .a libraries provided by MingW. Rust bundles the libraries that are needed by the standard library, but things like xinput are not bundled and must be provided by a full MingW installation.

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Ah, that's good to know. I'll give it a shot and see if that's where the problem was coming from.

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I got a similar error ld: cannot find -ld3d9, which was later solved by installing the MSVC version of Rust (found here), and running cargo from VS2015 x64 Native Tools Command Prompt.

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The current Rust MSVC nightly should actually be able to auto-detect your VS installation so that it can find the libraries without having to use the VS command prompt.

To fix the issue on -gnu, the approach I'm taking is to bundle import libraries from mingw so that it will work with Rust out of the box. I just haven't done that for d3d9 yet.

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This is no longer an issue as winapi bundles all its own import libraries for MinGW targets.

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