rust: link.exe not found

Question

I installed the rust compiler and also MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++ x64/x86 build tools (v14.27) (as an individual component)

This does not seam to be working.

Does rust require anything more which I have not installed? Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Install the Windows SDK too.

I also didn't want to install all of Visual Studio just to compile rust from the command line.

Based on the info in coder-256's link, I tried running C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat. Then, instead of being unable to find link.exe, I got the error: note: LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'advapi32.lib'

Searching Stack for that error led to this answer: Install the Windows SDK

So I installed the Windows 10 SDK, and now (after launching a new cmd window) it works.