Ongoing metadata writer improvements and new command line tool #2319
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Continuing from #2309 this continues to expand support for metadata generation (#1093) and adds the
riddlecommand line tool that will eventually replace bothMIDLRTandMDMERGEwith an all-Rust alternative. This should make it a lot simpler to build WinRT and Win32 components in Rust without requiring any Windows SDK dependencies. It's early days but we can now write a component's inteface definition in a Rust-like syntax and runriddleto generate a .winmd directly:It's also complete with decent error handling: