Rustup: can't cross-compiling x86_64-pc-windows-msvc in ubuntu

[fcying]

rustup target add x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

cargo build --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

error: linker `link.exe` not found
  |
  = note: No such file or directory (os error 2)

note: the msvc targets depend on the msvc linker but `link.exe` was not found

note: please ensure that VS 2013 or VS 2015 was installed with the Visual C++ option

error: aborting due to previous error

error: Could not compile `test_rust`.

To learn more, run the command again with --verbose.

can't found link.exe, Is there anything else needs to be installed?

[Diggsey]

You cannot target the MSVC toolchain from linux unless you can manage to get a working version of the microsoft linker (link.exe) and any required runtime libraries. It's plausible you could use the clang linker for this, but you're essentially on your own with this path.

What you probably want is to target the -gnu triple instead.

Also, this is a good source of information about cross compiling with rust: https://github.com/japaric/rust-cross

[fcying]

thanks for reply~