Enable static CRT (in git), closes #318

.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"]

.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: |

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.