Feat: Add Rust toolchain to windows-11-arm

[yorickdowne]

Type of issue

• Request for additional tools or software for an existing image.

Describe the issue

windows-11-arm runner currently does not come with the Rust toolchain pre-installed

In testing, that environment is supported and something like this can add Rust:

      - name: Install rustup (Windows 11 ARM64)
        shell: pwsh
        run: |
          Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup/dist/aarch64-pc-windows-msvc/rustup-init.exe" -OutFile rustup-init.exe
          .\rustup-init.exe --default-toolchain none -y
          "$env:USERPROFILE\.cargo\bin" | Out-File -Append -Encoding ascii $env:GITHUB_PATH
          "CARGO_HOME=$env:USERPROFILE\.cargo" | Out-File -Append -Encoding ascii $env:GITHUB_ENV
      - name: Install Rust (Windows 11 ARM64)
        shell: pwsh
        run: |
          rustup install stable
          rustup target add aarch64-pc-windows-msvc

Desired functionality

Have a Rust toolchain preinstalled in the windows-11-arm image

[alex]

FYI, this also isn't listed in the "Omitted Software" part of the docs: https://github.com/actions/partner-runner-images/blob/main/images/arm-windows-11-image.md#omitted-software

Much better to simply add it though :-)

[riverar]

+1 Hit this while testing Arm runners in the Rust for Windows repository.

[AsherJingkongChen]

For anyone who wants to install rustup in bash before actions-rust-lang/setup-rust-toolchain, so there will be no more error rustup: command not found occurs in your GitHub Action experimental ARM64 runner. You can skip the step after the issue closed.

            - if: matrix.os == 'windows-11-arm'
              name: Install rustup on Windows ARM
              run: |
                  curl -LOs https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup/dist/aarch64-pc-windows-msvc/rustup-init.exe
                  ./rustup-init.exe -y --default-toolchain none --no-modify-path
                  echo "$USERPROFILE/.cargo/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"
            - uses: actions-rust-lang/setup-rust-toolchain@v1

[jonasbb]

The just released actions-rust-lang/setup-rust-toolchain v1.12 includes Windows support and installs rustup and Rust for the Windows ARM images. It is no longer necessary to install rustup first.

actions-rust-lang/setup-rust-toolchain#58

[pareenaverma]

Thank you for reporting this issue, we’ll be adding the rust toolchain to the next version of the windows runners image.

[alex]

Is there any estimate you can share for when that will be? Thanks.

[khmyznikov]

@alex early June is the plan.

[briansmith]

Thanks for providing this.

         if: matrix.os == 'windows-11-arm'

Obviously, this will vary depending on how your test matrix is set up. I believe you could use runner.os == 'Windows' && runner.arch = 'ARM64' or similar, to avoid this.

              name: Install rustup on Windows ARM
              run: |
                  curl -LOs https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup/dist/aarch64-pc-windows-msvc/rustup-init.exe
                  ./rustup-init.exe -y --default-toolchain none --no-modify-path
                  echo "$USERPROFILE/.cargo/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"

This requires shell: sh.

            - uses: actions-rust-lang/setup-rust-toolchain@v1

This isn't strictly necessary; you could use rustup install to install the toolchain if you wish to avoid depending on any actions.

Ideally, one should also check the sha256sum of rustup-init.exe and ideally link to a specific version of it, to avoid surprises.