Fail to build sdl2-Sys on x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

[jstefanelli]

Hi,
on and off for the last few months I've tried to set up sdl2 on rust. While on linux and mac it as easy as creating this Cargo.toml and running cargo build, on windows I fail consistently with the following error messages: error.txt

The lines that I think matter are the following:

     Creating library H:/HD/Documernts/sdlTest/target/debug/build/sdl2-sys-128904f9eb441901/out/build/Release/SDL2.lib and object H:/HD/Documernts/sdlTest/target/debug/build/sdl2-sys-128904f9eb441901/out/build/Release/SDL2.exp
SDL_string.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol memset referenced in function SDL_vsnprintf_REAL [H:\HD\Documernts\sdlTest\target\debug\build\sdl2-sys-128904f9eb441901\out\build\SDL2.vcxproj]
H:\HD\Documernts\sdlTest\target\debug\build\sdl2-sys-128904f9eb441901\out\build\Release\SDL2.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals [H:\HD\Documernts\sdlTest\target\debug\build\sdl2-sys-128904f9eb441901\out\build\SDL2.vcxproj]

I've tried with running cargo build from powershell and the VS 2019 Command prompt with no difference.
I'm retty sure I missed a step in the configuration. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

[Cobrand]

Does it still fail without using the "bundled" feature? Does it compile fine on the "master" branch of sdl2?

[Cobrand]

I thin your problem is https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58288692/cant-build-solution-in-release-mode-for-sdl-library-on-vs-2019, which is solved by #951 , so try using in your Cargo.toml

sdl2 = { git = "https://github.com/Rust-SDL2/rust-sdl2.git" }

It will also be included in 0.33 if you can wait.

[jstefanelli]

Can confirm targeting git works. Thank you so much!