That’s just how things are on Windows. Building just about anything requires Visual Studio (not the UI but the tooling that comes with it. E.g. msbuild and C++ headers)
You won’t have to do this on Linux or if you use a pre-built exe
You won’t have to do this on Linux or if you use a pre-built exe
https://www.elmalabarista.com/blog/2020-install-rust-windows...
choco install visualstudio2019-workload-vctools, llvm