Cross-compile a Rust application from Linux to Windows

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Other answers, while technically correct, are more difficult than they need to be. There’s no need to use rustc (in fact it’s discouraged, just use cargo), you only need rustup, cargo and your distribution’s mingw-w64.

Add the target (you can also change this for whatever target you’re cross compiling for):

rustup target add x86_64-pc-windows-gnu

You can build your crate easily with:

cargo build --target x86_64-pc-windows-gnu

No need for messing around with ~/.cargo/config or anything else.

EDIT: Just wanted to add that while you can use the above it can also sometimes be a headache. I wanted to add that the rust tools team also maintains a project called cross: https://github.com/rust-embedded/cross
This might be another solution that you want to look into

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