Cross build from mac to windows 10 cannot be launched with 'cannot find webview2loader.dll'

[AllenDang]

Problem

I cross build from mac to windows with following command.

cargo build --release --target=x86_64-pc-windows-gnu

Launch it on windows 10 give me an error message says "cannot find webview2loader.dll".

I followed the instruction on https://developer.microsoft.com/zh-cn/microsoft-edge/webview2/#download-section and installed the edge webview2 runtime.

Issue persists.

Expected behavior

Application could be launched normally on windows 10.

Environment:

• Dioxus version: 0.3.2
• Rust version: 1.68
• OS info: windows 10
• App platform: desktop

[ealmloff]

Tauri doesn't officially support windows-gnu. If you switch targets to x86_64-pc-windows-msvc, the msvc target is supported

[AllenDang]

@Demonthos mcvc toolchain cannot run in macOS, at least I didn't find a proper way, do you know how?

[arqalite]

@AllenDang Check out https://github.com/rust-cross/cargo-xwin.

cargo xwin build --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc works on Linux and generates a working EXE binary. I don't own any Apple devices so I can't test on macOS.

[shivaraj-bh]

I don't own any Apple devices so I can't test on macOS.

I can confirm that it works on macOS too

[pascalbehmenburg]

Running the suggested setup as follows on macOS:

rustup target add x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
cargo install cargo-xwin
cargo xwin build --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

^the above requires clang and llvm to be installed or rustup component add llvm-tools-preview as can be read in the cargo-xwin docs.

The binary compiles perfectly fine, as you can see here (running on windows):

This issue may be closed. One could consider documenting these steps to cross-compile, although I'd say this is a pretty standard approach to cross-compilation when targeting msvc. Maybe one could state somewhere that Tauri does only compile for msvc target, so it is more obvious.

[ealmloff]

This issue may be closed. One could consider documenting these steps to cross-compile, although I'd say this is a pretty standard approach to cross-compilation when targeting msvc. Maybe one could state somewhere that Tauri does only compile for msvc target, so it is more obvious.

This was fixed in #1681