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  "path": "/t/using-pre-2015-rust/24007#post_6",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-20T08:33:54.000Z",
  "site": "https://internals.rust-lang.org",
  "textContent": "Tried it, it could not integrate with cargo well. I had to write a wrapper to translate `-vV` into `--version verbose`, and then `cargo run` had this error:\n\n\n    error: malformed output when learning about crate-type bin information\n    command was: `D:\\study-coding\\rust\\use-pre-2015-rust\\.\\rustc_wrapper.cmd - --crate-name ___ --print=file-names --crate-type bin --crate-type rlib --crate-type dylib --crate-type cdylib --crate-type staticlib --crate-type proc-macro --print=sysroot --print=split-debuginfo --print=crate-name --print=cfg -Wwarnings`\n\n    --- stderr\n    error: Unrecognized option: 'print'.\n\n\nSo I tried running rustc directly `rustc src/main.rs` but it seems it only had the `i686-pc-mingw32` target which linker I don't have:\n\n\n    D:\\study-coding\\rust\\use-pre-2015-rust>rustc src/main.rs\n    error: could not exec the linker `gcc`: file not found (OS Error 2: 系统找不到指定的文件。\n    )\n    error: aborting due to previous error\n\n\nI'll do it another day, I'll have to use the Linux VM, install MinGW, or find a msvc target toolchain.",
  "title": "Using pre-2015 Rust"
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