CLI Installation Issue

[SarthiBorkar]

What version are you using?

What did you do?

I m a student and a solidity dev learning and starting to build on steller so i was installing CLI soroban

PS C:\Users\admin> cargo install --locked soroban-cli

Updating crates.io index

Installing soroban-cli v20.3.4
Updating crates.io index
Updating crates.io index
Compiling proc-macro2 v1.0.69
Compiling unicode-ident v1.0.12
Compiling serde v1.0.192
Compiling autocfg v1.1.0
Compiling cfg-if v1.0.0
Compiling thiserror v1.0.55
error: linker link.exe not found
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= 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.

note: VS Code is a different product, and is not sufficient.

error: could not compile serde (build script) due to 1 previous error
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
error: could not compile proc-macro2 (build script) due to 1 previous error
error: could not compile thiserror (build script) due to 1 previous error
error: failed to compile soroban-cli v20.3.4, intermediate artifacts can be found at C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\cargo-installK1pooJ.
To reuse those artifacts with a future compilation, set the environment variable CARGO_TARGET_DIR to that path.

What did you expect to see?

when i typed soroban it give error :
PS C:\Users\admin> soroban
soroban : The term 'soroban' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the
name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1

• soroban

•   + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (soroban:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
  
  

What did you see instead?

i an mentioned above

[willemneal]

@fnando This seems like an issue for you.

What I would suggest is using cargo-binstall as there are already prebuilt windows binaries released on github.

[SarthiBorkar]

Will do that. Thank you