building for windows with dependencies

[skadefro]

I'm sorry if this is a basic easy question, but I've been fighting with this for 3 days and I just cannot figure out how to do this ( it feels like it's not a "cross" problem, but a "understanding cargo build" problem, but ....

I have a project in rust, I have setup a build script that compiles for 10 different targets (linux, macos, windows)
It works perfect ( thank you so much for this project !!! it's a life saver )

But now i need to use napi-rs ... that works fine on all targets except windows. ( if i go to a windows machine with nodejs and visual studio installed rust compiles without any issues ) But with cross, it fails with

  = note: x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc-posix: error: delayimp.lib: No such file or directory
          x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc-posix: error: /DELAYLOAD:node.exe: No such file or directory

I assumed i need to find those files and "map" them into cross by adding a

[build.env]
volumes = [  ]

section but from here I'm lost ... I tried extracting a windows nodejs installation and the folder containing delayimp.lib from a windows machine with visual studio installed, but it's like rust does not find them.

I guess my question is.
If we have dependencies, we can easily add those using something like

[build]
pre-build = [
    "apt-get update && apt-get install --assume-yes protobuf-compiler"
]

but this only works for linux. Is there a way to easily add things to the wine installation, when building for windows ?
How do we add dependencies for/on windows ?
Has anyone else tried making cross work with the napi-build/napi crates on windows ?

[Emilgardis]

Try using their alpha release which includes napi-rs/napi-rs#2026

[skadefro]

oh my god, i feel stupid.
So i had already tested using the alpha , but i was using napi-build = "1" ... as soon as i "bumped" that up to napi-build = "2.1.3" it started working on all my targets.