The windows-rs project is focused on bringing the best of Windows to Rust developers. Various efforts to support non-Windows targets continue to make it too difficult to support Windows, which is the whole point of this project.
The position we're taking is to provide basic non-Windows compatibility for windows-core only to support COM and nothing more. Even this adds regrettable complexity to the windows-core crate, but this update at least attempts to make that complexity manageable by providing a simple way for us to partition what parts of windows-core is specific to Windows and what is cross-platform. Subsequent updates will limit more of the code that isn't required for COM support.
The test_linux crate covers what little support we offer for non-Windows targets. This is limited to windows-core and windows-result and is tested in linux.yml as part of each build.
The windows-rs project is focused on bringing the best of Windows to Rust developers. Various efforts to support non-Windows targets continue to make it too difficult to support Windows, which is the whole point of this project.
The position we're taking is to provide basic non-Windows compatibility for
windows-coreonly to support COM and nothing more. Even this adds regrettable complexity to thewindows-corecrate, but this update at least attempts to make that complexity manageable by providing a simple way for us to partition what parts ofwindows-coreis specific to Windows and what is cross-platform. Subsequent updates will limit more of the code that isn't required for COM support.The test_linux crate covers what little support we offer for non-Windows targets. This is limited to
windows-coreandwindows-resultand is tested in linux.yml as part of each build.Fixes: #3101 Fixes: #3083 Related: #3125