Saturday, September 23, 2023

Cross-compiling Rust for x32

While analyzing a bug in WinSafe, I had to test its compilation on the i686 platform. Without knowing, I already had it installed together with my MSVC toolchain, and I just needed a few commands in order to pull it out:

List all available toolchains:

rustup toolchain list

Which gave me:

stable-i686-pc-windows-msvc
stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc (default)
nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

Then choose other than the default toolchain:

cargo +stable-i686-pc-windows-msvc c

After performing all the tests, it’s a good idea to clean all the build artifacts:

cargo clean

Note that, if the toolchain is not present, it may have to be installed.