### Problem to Solve Unlike Linux and MacOs, a bare Windows systems does not contain C runtimes. While bare systems are rarer in commercially purchased laptops, in Containers, CI and Virtual Testing Machines it is very common. This can be very hard to diagnose, especially for rust. Recently I had to debug why the Chroma MCP server was not working on a pristine build - and it ended up being the lack of Visual C Runtimes. ### Proposed Solution When Windows binaries are produced they must account for Visual C Runtimes - [either statically linked in](https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/linkage.html#static-and-dynamic-c-runtimes) or installed by the installation system and documented as a dependency. Working example code of both of these is here: - [Static Linking](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/rust/knowledge-graph/-/blob/de55fd2979a1e3c1f920a2c796ec967a06c11380/.gitlab/ci/release.yml#L117) - [Installation time VC_Redist.exe](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/orbit/knowledge-graph/-/blob/02fcbfaf0715631f4704bff6d10ae98bdc36f91b/install.sh#L171-191)