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The .exe installer tries to install to "C:Program Files (x86)Rust", even though it's the 64-bit version. It then fails to create the destination directory due to a permission error. The .msi installer correctly defaults to "C:Program FilesRust <channel<version", and has no problems with permissions, I would expect the .exe installer to have the same behaviour.
Rust should install to , just like Ant, Python, and many others. is the place for developer tools that have a known folder. is badly named (compare to ), poorly suited for command line tools, and clutters the already hideous PATH more than .
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Neither Ant nor Python install to C:tools by default, and searching I can't find any reference to C:tools even being a thing? Both Python and Ant install to C:Python<Versionand C:ant, which is incredibly annoying, so please don't do that!
I might be mistaken, but installing both through stuck them in for me. I'd recommend anyone with a machine running Vista or later use chocolatey. And there's a trend in chocolatey to have packages extract to when they aren't self-contained enough for .
For an OS without much filesystem hierarchy, is a decent place for developer and command-line packages, similar to on some unices. But I'd much rather see a that actually obeyed chocolatey's conventions and extracted an archive to , with no installer/registry involvement. But Rust only and installers for windows. : And all packages that do this reduce PATH clutter, since chocolatey symlinks their executables into .
The idea was to deprecate the .exe installer once .msi is known to be working satisfactory.
Can we have a zip release too, that contains Rust and Cargo like the others? Linux and OS X have an archive release. Those are preferred in chocolatey because they don't involve the registry or any other Windows components.
We do produce tarballs for windows.
Seems like we should probably just stop producing the .exe's. That fix would go in
I don't see a cargo+rustc nightly tarball for windows, although I do see ones for linux and osx.
triage: We do not link to the .exe installer anymore, but we still produce them. I don't have access to windows at the moment to check if this bug has been resolved, but it's been a long time...
Grabbing the Windows download link from and swapping the for yields a functional link to the , which is nice. Testing on win7-x64, the MSI extracts with lessmsi, but the directory structure is somewhat unusual so there's no one-liner to get the Rust folder out. The best I came up with was: This yields a Rust install rooted at . However now that exists, multiple targets aren't really an issue anymore. Someone should make a Chocolatey package for
Can someone with access to Windows check what happens here today?
The latest version installs to instead, which works, but is a terrible default.
Triage: ! This seems... fine. I'm not sure if this should stay open or not; I'll let the relevant team (infra? compiler?) decide.

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text: <del> // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // // Inno Setup Ver:	5.4.2 // Script Version:	1.4.1 // Author:			Jared Breland <jbreland@legroom.net> // Homepage:		http://www.legroom.net/software // License:			GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 3 //						http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html // // Script Function: //	Allow modification of environmental path directly from Inno Setup installers // // Instructions: //	Copy modpath.iss to the same directory as your setup script // //	Add this statement to your [Setup] section //		ChangesEnvironment=true // //	Add this statement to your [Tasks] section //	You can change the Description or Flags //	You can change the Name, but it must match the ModPathName setting below //		Name: modifypath; Description: &Add application directory to your environmental path; Flags: unchecked // //	Add the following to the end of your [Code] section //	ModPathName defines the name of the task defined above //	ModPathType defines whether the 'user' or 'system' path will be modified; //		this will default to user if anything other than system is set //	setArrayLength must specify the total number of dirs to be added //	Result[0] contains first directory, Result[1] contains second, etc. //		const //			ModPathName = 'modifypath'; //			ModPathType = 'user'; // //		function ModPathDir(): TArrayOfString; //		begin //			setArrayLength(Result, 1); //			Result[0] := ExpandConstant('{app}'); //		end; //		#include "modpath.iss" // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- procedure ModPath(); var oldpath:	String; newpath:	String; updatepath:	Boolean; pathArr:	TArrayOfString; aExecFile:	String; aExecArr:	TArrayOfString; i, d:		Integer; pathdir:	TArrayOfString; regroot:	Integer; regpath:	String; begin // Get constants from main script and adjust behavior accordingly // ModPathType MUST be 'system' or 'user'; force 'user' if invalid if ModPathType = 'system' then begin regroot := HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE; regpath := 'SYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerEnvironment'; end else begin regroot := HKEY_CURRENT_USER; regpath := 'Environment'; end; // Get array of new directories and act on each individually pathdir := ModPathDir(); for d := 0 to GetArrayLength(pathdir)-1 do begin updatepath := true; // Modify WinNT path if UsingWinNT() = true then begin // Get current path, split into an array RegQueryStringValue(regroot, regpath, 'Path', oldpath); oldpath := oldpath + ';'; i := 0; while (Pos(';', oldpath) > 0) do begin SetArrayLength(pathArr, i+1); pathArr[i] := Copy(oldpath, 0, Pos(';', oldpath)-1); oldpath := Copy(oldpath, Pos(';', oldpath)+1, Length(oldpath)); i := i + 1; // Check if current directory matches app dir if pathdir[d] = pathArr[i-1] then begin // if uninstalling, remove dir from path if IsUninstaller() = true then begin continue; // if installing, flag that dir already exists in path end else begin updatepath := false; end; end; // Add current directory to new path if i = 1 then begin newpath := pathArr[i-1]; end else begin newpath := newpath + ';' + pathArr[i-1]; end; end; // Append app dir to path if not already included if (IsUninstaller() = false) AND (updatepath = true) then newpath := newpath + ';' + pathdir[d]; // Write new path RegWriteStringValue(regroot, regpath, 'Path', newpath); // Modify Win9x path end else begin // Convert to shortened dirname pathdir[d] := GetShortName(pathdir[d]); // If autoexec.bat exists, check if app dir already exists in path aExecFile := 'C:AUTOEXEC.BAT'; if FileExists(aExecFile) then begin LoadStringsFromFile(aExecFile, aExecArr); for i := 0 to GetArrayLength(aExecArr)-1 do begin if IsUninstaller() = false then begin // If app dir already exists while installing, skip add if (Pos(pathdir[d], aExecArr[i]) > 0) then updatepath := false; break; end else begin // If app dir exists and = what we originally set, then delete at uninstall if aExecArr[i] = 'SET PATH=%PATH%;' + pathdir[d] then aExecArr[i] := ''; end; end; end; // If app dir not found, or autoexec.bat didn't exist, then (create and) append to current path if (IsUninstaller() = false) AND (updatepath = true) then begin SaveStringToFile(aExecFile, #13#10 + 'SET PATH=%PATH%;' + pathdir[d], True); // If uninstalling, write the full autoexec out end else begin SaveStringsToFile(aExecFile, aExecArr, False); end; end; end; end; // Split a string into an array using passed delimiter procedure Explode(var Dest: TArrayOfString; Text: String; Separator: String); var i: Integer; begin i := 0; repeat SetArrayLength(Dest, i+1); if Pos(Separator,Text) > 0 then	begin Dest[i] := Copy(Text, 1, Pos(Separator, Text)-1); Text := Copy(Text, Pos(Separator,Text) + Length(Separator), Length(Text)); i := i + 1; end else begin Dest[i] := Text; Text := ''; end; until Length(Text)=0; end; procedure ModPathCurStepChanged(CurStep: TSetupStep); var taskname:	String; begin taskname := ModPathName; if CurStep = ssPostInstall then if IsTaskSelected(taskname) then ModPath(); end; procedure CurUninstallStepChanged(CurUninstallStep: TUninstallStep); var aSelectedTasks:	TArrayOfString; i:				Integer; taskname:		String; regpath:		String; regstring:		String; appid:			String; begin // only run during actual uninstall if CurUninstallStep = usUninstall then begin // get list of selected tasks saved in registry at install time appid := '{#emit SetupSetting("AppId")}'; if appid = '' then appid := '{#emit SetupSetting("AppName")}'; regpath := ExpandConstant('SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstall'+appid+'_is1'); RegQueryStringValue(HKLM, regpath, 'Inno Setup: Selected Tasks', regstring); if regstring = '' then RegQueryStringValue(HKCU, regpath, 'Inno Setup: Selected Tasks', regstring); // check each task; if matches modpath taskname, trigger patch removal if regstring <> '' then begin taskname := ModPathName; Explode(aSelectedTasks, regstring, ','); if GetArrayLength(aSelectedTasks) > 0 then begin for i := 0 to GetArrayLength(aSelectedTasks)-1 do begin if comparetext(aSelectedTasks[i], taskname) = 0 then ModPath(); end; end; end; end; end; function NeedRestart(): Boolean; var taskname:	String; begin taskname := ModPathName; if IsTaskSelected(taskname) and not UsingWinNT() then begin Result := True; end else begin Result := False; end; end; </del>