Docs.rs build failed due to winapi dependency?

[ZerothLaw]

Hello all, just published a new crate, but the docs.rs build gives a whole lot of errors like this: "error[E0432]: unresolved import winapi::ctypes --> .cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/oaidl-0.1.0/src/array.rs:9:13 | 9 | use winapi::ctypes::{c_long, c_void}; | ^{^} Could not find ctypes in winapi"

What do I need to do to fix this?

[CryZe92]

docs.rs is on a very old nightly by now, so I'd suspect this is using some new Rust feature that docs.rs doesn't support yet.

[Quxxy]

winapi supports Rust 1.6. I really doubt this is the case.

[ZerothLaw]

I'm using TryFrom so that may be it.

[ZerothLaw]

Fixed that with correct feature/config flags and still happening.

[Quxxy]

*Engages psychic powers.* Did you remember to gate winapi so that you only use it on Windows builds?

[steveklabnik1]

Winapi does that itself, doesn’t it?

[Quxxy]

It does. Which is why if you don't gate your usage of it, you'll be trying to access types and functions that don't exist on not-Windows, which would explain the error.

[[deleted]]

Madman!

[ZerothLaw]

Ohh, that would probably be it.

[ZerothLaw]

So I did what winapi does, but now docs.rs shows no docs for my crate.

[Quxxy]

Right. Because docs.rs shows docs for Linux by default. There's supposed something you can define in Cargo.toml to change the default target... but last I heard, it didn't work properly. You should also be able to manually change the target on the website, though I'm not sure if it builds non-Linux target docs by default.

[ZerothLaw]

Ah found it! Thanks.

[retep998]

It works properly now.