rust-lang / rust-lang/backtrace-rs
Add a `windows_raw_dylib` feature
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Description
The standard library recently gained a windows_raw_dylib feature that enables building rust programs without any Windows SDK import libraries (though it still needs C/C++ runtime stuff). However, backtrace doesn't yet support this so at least kernel32 is still required.
I don't have time to work on this atm but if anyone wants to then seeing how the standard library does it might help. Note that std using the unstable macro (instead of macro_rules) so that would likely need to be different in backtrace-rs unless gating on backtrace_in_libstd.
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Research direction
Start by comparing the standard library implementation in library/std/Cargo.toml and library/std/src/sys/pal/windows/c with backtrace-rs's Windows support and its kernel32 linking. Account for the different macro constraints described in the issue, and consider the work done when backtrace builds without Windows SDK import libraries while retaining required C/C++ runtime support.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
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- 48/100