[tor-bugs] #22839 [Core Tor/Tor]: Build tor with Rust code enabled on Windows

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#22839: Build tor with Rust code enabled on Windows
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 Reporter:  isis                                 |          Owner:  snoek
     Type:  task                                 |         Status:
                                                 |  needs_review
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:  Tor:
                                                 |  0.3.2.x-final
Component:  Core Tor/Tor                         |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  rust, windows, tor-build, review-    |  Actual Points:
  group-22                                       |
Parent ID:                                       |         Points:  1
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
                                                 |  SponsorZ
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Comment (by alexcrichton):

 >  @alexcrichton, if you happen to read this, it just so happens that you
 fixed Rust bug 29508, which is the inverse of this possible Rust bug I
 described above in that MSVC static libs had the GCC .a naming. Any
 thoughts?

 Holy cow, turns out this has been the implementation since before 1.0! I
 actually had no idea about this...

 That being said, I think that .a and .lib files are equivalent for the
 purposes of `ld` or w/e MinGW linker is being used (we just pass the .lib
 files to the linker). Have you found they don't work though? If they don't
 then we can surely get a fix in!

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