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Installing Rust on Windows

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Installing Rust on Windows

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- [Instructor] The recommended way to install Rust is through a command line tool named Rustup, which is used to manage Rust versions and its associated tools. To get Rustup for Windows, go to the install page on rust-lang.org, download rustup-init.exe. I'll switch to my downloads to find that file and then run it. Using Rust on Windows requires the Visual Studio C++ build tools to be installed on your system before installing Rustup. If you see a warning message like this one, that means they're not installed. And since I'm getting that message here, there's another step I'll need to take before continuing to install Rustup. So I'll close this installer window, switch back to my web browser, and I'll search for Visual Studio download. I'll go to this first link for a downloads page, scroll down to the section that says "Tools for Visual Studio", and then at the bottom of that section, download the build tools…

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