Learn to build win32 apps with Rust

This repository contains source code to some example projects in win32. I'm learning rust at the moment and this is a catalogue of my journey. Hopefully it will be useful to you dear reader.

Setting up your development environment

I'd recommend using chocolatey as your package manager.

To install rust,

1. Run Powershell or Cmd with administrator privileges.
2. Run choco install rust to install rust.
3. Then, run choco install rustup.install to install rustup. It installs rustfmt which is a code formatter for rust.

Setting up your IDE

vscode

If you are using vscode, I'd recommend installing the rust-analyzer extension.

vim

If you are running vim, I'd recommend installing the [rust-lang/rust.vim](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust.vim) plugin

Running the examples

The examples are organised in their self-contained folder. All files needed to build and run the examples are in that folder.

To build an example, navigate to the folder in powershell / cmd and type

cargo build

To run the example, type

cargo run

For instance, to run the messagebox example,

PS C:\Code\rust-win32\examples\messagebox> cargo build
    Compiling messagebox v0.1.0 (C:\Code\rust-win32\examples\messagebox)
     Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 1.04s
PS C:\Code\rust-win32\examples\messagebox> cargo run
    Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.01s
     Running `target\debug\messagebox.exe`
PS C:\Code\rust-win32\examples\messagebox> 

Questions?

If you have any questions, please open an issue.