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Update Windows installation documentation to recommend manual method
I am a linux user & do all of my development there, but started playing around with rust on a windows machine & just blindly followed the instructions at https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings/#windows
This installation method requires installing with administrator privileges, installs into a protected system folder, which is read-only by default, and therefore, upon completion, rightly triggers errors from anti-virus software
Vim won't even cd to this protected directory
Upon realizing all of this, I undid it all by running cargo uninstall rustlings from the same administrator PowerShell session & manually deleting c:\\Windows\System32\rustlings, and did the manual installation steps as a regular user with no problem
There have been a couple past issues created by people who found themselves in trouble after following these instructions, e.g. https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings/issues/878
The install script installs into $pwd/rustlings by default. It seems like in your case, that was c://Windows/System32. Is that a Window default? I'd assumed a shell would not start in a directory like this, unless that's because the shell is in administrator mode? Apologies, I don't use Windows, so I can offer limited support here. I'd still like to have some sort of semi-automatic way of installing Rustlings on Windows, but maybe we can adjust things a bit.
It looks like if you open PowerShell as Administrator the default $pwd is indeed C:\Windows\system32 -- something I perhaps should have noticed. If I do cd $HOME and mkdir tmp and cd tmp before running the Start-BitsTransfer line it does install there, but still installs it read-only & owned by the administrator account
Sorry that's not a lot of help, I probably know windows less than you, but do have a windows 10 laptop here I can test with :)
Hey everyone! As kennethd stated the default directory when starting powershell as admin is C:\Windows\system32. Maybe it would be better if at line 4 of install.ps1 instead of $pwd we use $home, as the later will refer to C:\Users\MyUser
As follows:
param($path = "$home/rustlings")
It just installed Rustlings in my System32 folder too. The intructions need to mention that you need to navigate to the desired folder first or the script needs to act more intelligently. Current situation is not very user friendly and will mean a broken installation for most users on the first try.
Updated the script to install in $home/rustlings for now, until we find a better solution.
This issue will be prevented by https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings/issues/1919
