cargo failure on windows: extra operand

[XAMPPRocky]

Output

Doesn't just happen on install, happens on any compiling. Worth noting it only happened after I installed Unity with Visual Studio 2015.

cargo install rustfmt --verbose
    Updating registry `https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index`
       Fresh winapi v0.2.5
       Fresh libc v0.2.4
       Fresh winapi-build v0.1.1
       Fresh rustc-serialize v0.3.16
       Fresh diff v0.1.7
       Fresh bitflags v0.3.3
       Fresh getopts v0.2.14
       Fresh unicode-segmentation v0.1.2
       Fresh regex-syntax v0.2.2
       Fresh memchr v0.1.7
   Compiling kernel32-sys v0.2.1
     Running `rustc C:\Users\Aaron\AppData\Local\.multirust\cargo\registry\src\github.com-0a35038f75765ae4\kernel32-sys-0.2.1\build.rs --crate-name build_script_build --crate-type bin -g --out-dir G:\poly\target-install\release\build\kernel32-sys-35c1a745c861d23a --emit=dep-info,link -L dependency=G:\poly\target-install\release\deps -L dependency=G:\poly\target-install\release\deps --extern build=G:\poly\target-install\release\deps\libbuild-304afb6bdff23d72.rlib --cap-lints allow`
       Fresh log v0.3.4
       Fresh toml v0.1.25
       Fresh unicode-xid v0.0.3
       Fresh aho-corasick v0.4.0
       Fresh strings v0.0.1
       Fresh regex v0.1.44
   Compiling env_logger v0.3.2
     Running `rustc C:\Users\Aaron\AppData\Local\.multirust\cargo\registry\src\github.com-0a35038f75765ae4\env_logger-0.3.2\src\lib.rs --crate-name env_logger --crate-type lib -C opt-level=3 -C metadata=d6d4f90527157295 -C extra-filename=-d6d4f90527157295 --out-dir G:\poly\target-install\release\deps --emit=dep-info,link -L dependency=G:\poly\target-install\release\deps -L dependency=G:\poly\target-install\release\deps --extern log=G:\poly\target-install\release\deps\liblog-db195e915b7f1b50.rlib --extern regex=G:\poly\target-install\release\deps\libregex-14c7acbc4abf7a40.rlib --cap-lints allow`
error: linking with `link.exe` failed: exit code: 1
note: "link.exe" "/LIBPATH:C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\VC/lib\\amd64" "/NOLOGO" "/NXCOMPAT" "/LIBPATH:C:\\Users\\Aaron\\AppData\\Local\\.multirust\\toolchains\\stable\\bin\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib" "G:\\poly\\target-install\\release\\build\\kernel32-sys-35c1a745c861d23a\\build_script_build.0.o" "/OUT:G:\\poly\\target-install\\release\\build\\kernel32-sys-35c1a745c861d23a\\build_script_build.exe" "/OPT:REF,ICF" "/DEBUG" "/LIBPATH:G:\\poly\\target-install\\release\\deps" "/LIBPATH:G:\\poly\\target-install\\release\\deps" "/LIBPATH:C:\\Users\\Aaron\\AppData\\Local\\.multirust\\toolchains\\stable\\bin\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib" "/LIBPATH:G:\\poly\\.rust\\bin\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc" "/LIBPATH:G:\\poly\\bin\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc" "C:\\Users\\Aaron\\Documents\\GitHub\\poly\\target-install\\release\\deps\\libbuild-304afb6bdff23d72.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Aaron\\AppData\\Local\\.multirust\\toolchains\\stable\\bin\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\libstd-35c36e89.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Aaron\\AppData\\Local\\.multirust\\toolchains\\stable\\bin\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\libcollections-35c36e89.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Aaron\\AppData\\Local\\.multirust\\toolchains\\stable\\bin\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\librustc_unicode-35c36e89.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Aaron\\AppData\\Local\\.multirust\\toolchains\\stable\\bin\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\librand-35c36e89.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Aaron\\AppData\\Local\\.multirust\\toolchains\\stable\\bin\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\liballoc-35c36e89.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Aaron\\AppData\\Local\\.multirust\\toolchains\\stable\\bin\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\liballoc_system-35c36e89.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Aaron\\AppData\\Local\\.multirust\\toolchains\\stable\\bin\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\liblibc-35c36e89.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Aaron\\AppData\\Local\\.multirust\\toolchains\\stable\\bin\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\libcore-35c36e89.rlib" "ws2_32.lib" "userenv.lib" "advapi32.lib" "kernel32.lib" "shell32.lib" "msvcrt.lib" "compiler-rt.lib"
note: /usr/bin/link: extra operand `/NXCOMPAT'
Try `/usr/bin/link --help' for more information.

error: aborting due to previous error
Build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
failed to compile `rustfmt v0.2.1`, intermediate artifacts can be found at `G:\poly\target-install`

Caused by:
  Could not compile `kernel32-sys`.

Caused by:
  Process didn't exit successfully: `rustc C:\Users\Aaron\AppData\Local\.multirust\cargo\registry\src\github.com-0a35038f75765ae4\kernel32-sys-0.2.1\build.rs --crate-name build_script_build --crate-type bin -g --out-dir G:\poly\target-install\release\build\kernel32-sys-35c1a745c861d23a --emit=dep-info,link -L dependency=G:\poly\target-install\release\deps -L dependency=G:\poly\target-install\release\deps --extern build=G:\poly\target-install\release\deps\libbuild-304afb6bdff23d72.rlib --cap-lints allow` (exit code: 101)

Version

also using the latest multirust-rs

rustc 1.5.0 (3d7cd77e4 2015-12-04)
binary: rustc
commit-hash: 3d7cd77e442ce34eaac8a176ae8be17669498ebc
commit-date: 2015-12-04
host: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
release: 1.5.0
cargo 0.6.0-nightly (e1ed995 2015-10-22)

[alexcrichton]

Thanks for the report! It looks like, however, that this may be a problem with your Rust installation rather than Cargo itself. Do you have Visual Studio installed? If not, you may want to try out the -windows-gnu toolchains instead of the -windows-msvc toolchains (as MSVC requires VS)

[XAMPPRocky]

@alexcrichton I did have Visual Studio when I ran it.

[alexcrichton]

What's happening here is that you're using the link.exe from MSYS rather than the VS link.exe, so it may be the case that rustc can't detect your VS installation. Another way to fix this would be to run the compiler from inside VS shell

[XAMPPRocky]

Ah okay, thanks!

[SilasReinagel]

I seem to be having the same problem. Where can I find the VS link.exe? I do not seem to be able to locate it in my Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition installation.

[alexcrichton]

@TheoConfidor oh you may have to be sure to check the box next to C++ tools during the installation.