Rustup Visual Studio Community installer packages wrong SDK version on Windows 10

[spaceghostmid]

Verification

• I searched for recent similar issues at https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen%2Cclosed and found no duplicates.
• I am on the latest version of Rustup according to https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/tags and am still able to reproduce my issue.

Problem

When running the rustup installer before installing C++ build tools dependencies on Windows 10, the Visual Studio Community installer only contains the SDK for Windows 11 and fails to install.

Steps

Launch rustup-init.exe on Windows 10 without necessary C++ build tools, try to install them through the provided Visual Studio Community installer.

Possible Solution(s)

Check windows version when running rustup-init.exe, provide different Visual Studio Community installers for Win10 and Win11.

Notes

I have also heard the opposite issue from some Win11 users on reddit - possible the check is already in place but the installer versions were flipped by mistake?

Rustup version

1.27.1

Installed toolchains

stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc (default)
rustc 1.81.0 (eeb90cda1 2024-09-04)

OS version

Windows 10 Pro (10.0.19405)

[ChrisDenton]

Can you say more about the error you're getting? I just tried on a clean Windows 10 and the installation was successful. Note that it's doubtful that the Windows SDK version matters. You can install any supported SDK on any supported version of Windows.