From dbca7464bd38c87ba607c728bce5607bb5773d70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ice_iix <ice_ix@protonmail.ch>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 11:20:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Enable static CRT (in git), closes #318

---
 .cargo/config                | 8 ++++++++
 .github/workflows/build.yaml | 6 ------
 README.md                    | 2 --
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 .cargo/config

diff --git a/.cargo/config b/.cargo/config
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b59522c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.cargo/config
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+[target.x86_64-pc-windows-msvc]
+rustflags = ["-Ctarget-feature=+crt-static"]
+
+[target.i686-pc-windows-msvc]
+rustflags = ["-Ctarget-feature=+crt-static"]
+
+[target.i586-pc-windows-msvc]
+rustflags = ["-Ctarget-feature=+crt-static"]
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yaml b/.github/workflows/build.yaml
index 5323758..e89aeae 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yaml
@@ -19,12 +19,6 @@ jobs:
         with:
           toolchain: stable
           default: true
-      - name: (Windows) Enable static CRT linkage # https://stackoverflow.com/a/44387312/7653274
-        if: matrix.os == 'windows-latest'
-        run: |
-          mkdir .cargo
-          echo '[target.x86_64-pc-windows-msvc]' >> .cargo/config
-          echo 'rustflags = ["-Ctarget-feature=+crt-static"]' >> .cargo/config
       - name: (Linux) Install libxcb-composite
         if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
         run: |
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 44a7db1..5df806c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -59,8 +59,6 @@ Support for older protocols will _not_ be dropped as newer protocols are added.
 Windows users can download pre-compiled builds from here: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/iceiix/stevenarella
 (Select your platform, Click the artifacts tab and download Steven.zip)
 
-The Visual Studio 2017 Redistributable is required to run these builds.
-
 ## Building
 
 Requires Rust stable version 1.44.1 or newer to build.