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### MSVC

MSVC builds of Rust additionally require an installation of Visual Studio 2017
(or later) so `rustc` can use its linker. The simplest way is to get
[Visual Studio], check the "C++ build tools" and "Windows 10 SDK" workload.
MSVC builds of Rust additionally requires an installation of:

- Visual Studio 2022 (or later) build tools so `rustc` can use its linker. Older
Visual Studio versions such as 2019 *may* work but aren't actively tested.
- A recent Windows 10 or 11 SDK.

The simplest way is to get [Visual Studio], check the "C++ build tools".

[Visual Studio]: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

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