Hey Rustaceans,

I recently switched from Linux to Windows 11 and installed Rust. Cargo commands work fine, but when I try to build a project I get this error:

error: linker `link.exe` not found
  |
  = note: program not found

note: the msvc targets depend on the msvc linker but `link.exe` was not found
note: please ensure that Visual Studio 2017 or later, or Build Tools for Visual Studio were installed with the Visual C++ option.

I installed Visual Studio 2022 and Build Tools 2022 with the C++ workload, but Rust still can’t find link.exe. I even tried using WSL (Ubuntu) and installing the MSVC target there, but it still fails.

I couldn’t locate link.exe to set a path manually. How can I correctly compile Rust for the x86_64 MSVC target on Windows 11?

Any guidance is appreciated!

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