Windows rustup GNU installer defaults to MSVC

[Marcono1234]

When I download the rustup GNU installer x86_64-pc-windows-gnu from https://forge.rust-lang.org/infra/other-installation-methods.html and execute it, it defaults to x86_64-pc-windows-msvc:

Is that intended?

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I am not familiar with Rust, so I might be misusing / misunderstanding the installer.

[pro465]

i think this issue should be posted on rustup rather than here

[XAMPPRocky]

Thank you for your issue! Yeah, I would agree, the issue is with the installer not the page.

cc @Mark-Simulacrum would you be to move this issue to rustup? (It doesn't seem like there's an existing issue) Otherwise we can close it and re-open manually.

[Marcono1234]

Sorry for creating this issue for the wrong project. It looks like rustup already has (at least) two issues covering this: rust-lang/rustup#1851, rust-lang/rustup#2568
The -gnu suffix only seems to represent how rustup was built but does not influence the host triple selection in any way.

So, if you don't mind I would close this issue then.

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A different issue I noticed is that there is content duplication between Rust Forge's Other ways to install rustup and rustup's Other installation methods. It appears rustup's documentation is more extensive. Should I create a separate issue for reducing this duplication, and just referring to rustup's documentation?

[XAMPPRocky]

Should I create a separate issue for reducing this duplication, and just referring to rustup's documentation?

cc @kinnison but in my opinion it's fine to remove the forge docs and point (or redirect) to the rustup book.

[kinnison]

I think forwarding over to the rustup book is a good plan. Various people (mostly Eric) made a lot of effort to make it good.