Unable to run Rust in cmd.exe or Powershell on Windows 7 64-bit

[vky]

The error that comes up in cmd.exe is '...pthreadGC2.dll is missing...', PowerShell doesn't show any errors. After copying the pthreadGC2.dll[1] into the installation directory[2], things were working properly in PowerShell and cmd.exe.

[0] http://www.sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/ - pthread lib home page
[1] ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/dll-latest/dll/x86/pthreadGC2.dll
[2] C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\local\bin

Edit: This was after compiling from source, the revision at the time was df39932.

[vky]

A side issue, I attempted to compile the hello example (in PowerShell) from the tutorial while having Strawberry Perl installed, and that caused things to blow up. There were no issues compiling the same file (in PowerShell) after uninstalling Strawberry Perl though.

Here's the top few lines of the error that was thrown:

error: linking with `gcc` failed with code 1
note: gcc arguments: -LC:\MinGW\msys\1.0\local\bin\rustc\i686-pc-mingw32\bin -m32 -o hello~ hello~.o -LC:\MinGW\msys\1.0\local\bin\rustc\i686-pc-mingw32\bin -lstd-6c65cf4b443341b1-0.7-pre -lstack -lrustrt
note: c:/code/strawberry/c/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/4.6.3/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: skipping incompatible c:/code/strawberry/c/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/4.6
./../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib/libmingw32.a when searching for -lmingw32
c:/code/strawberry/c/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/4.6.3/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: skipping incompatible c:/code/strawberry/c/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/4.6.3/../
./../x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib\libmingw32.a when searching for -lmingw32

[thestinger]

Visiting for triage.

[sanxiyn]

Triage. Tagging @vadimcn. Had #9662 fixed this?

[vadimcn]

#9662 fixes this for stage0 and for installer distribution.

If the expectation is to run stage2\bin\rustc.exe without having dependency dlls on somewhere on the PATH, the answer is "no".

[alexcrichton]

This is no longer an issue. The nightly installers work in cmd.exe as-is.

I imagine that this was fixed over time with various patches to remove the libpthread dependencies as well as the migration to mingw-w64.