According to #23223, manually setting `RUSTFLAGS` env var overrides
settings in `.cargo/config.toml`. Since users possibly may set their own
`RUSTFLAGS` when building, this creates an avenue where builds may fail
for really strange reasons that are difficult to debug.
This PR adds notes to the troubleshooting section to avoid setting
`RUSTFLAGS`, and offers alternatives which do not conflict.
This problem most recently affected nightly CI builders since we had
been setting `RUSTFLAGS` in our workflows to enable custom things like
gles or compiling with a specific target cpu. PR #23117 caused builds to
fail unless they were compiled with `-C target-feature=+crt-static`,
which due to this issue the `RUSTFLAGS` env var we set overrode the
`config.toml` compile flags, causing our builds to fail.
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I’ve also updated the documentation in
`development\local-collaboration.md` and
`docs\src\development\windows.md`.
Testing collab on my Windows machine:

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Co-authored-by: Marshall Bowers <elliott.codes@gmail.com>
Some changes just so the build docs for the different os matches each
other :)
macos:
- moved `rust wasm toolchain install` up under `rust install` (match
windows docs)
- add instructions to update rust if already installed (match windows
and linux docs)
windows:
- add `(required by a dependency)` to cmake install (match macos docs)
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Currently, building on Windows may fail for people who have not enabled
long filepaths on Windows itself.
This PR adds the solution to the troubleshooting section in the
`Building Zed for Windows` guide.
For an example failure error message:
```rs
error: failed to get `pet` as a dependency of package `languages v0.1.0 (D:\a\zed-windows-builds\zed-windows-builds\crates\languages)`
Caused by:
failed to load source for dependency `pet`
Caused by:
Unable to update https://github.com/microsoft/python-environment-tools.git?rev=ffcbf3f28c46633abd5448a52b1f396c322e0d6c#ffcbf3f2
Caused by:
path too long: 'C:/Users/runneradmin/.cargo/git/checkouts/python-environment-tools-903993894b37a7d2/ffcbf3f/crates/pet-conda/tests/unix/conda_env_without_manager_but_found_in_history/some_other_location/conda_install/conda-meta/python-fastjsonschema-2.16.2-py310hca03da5_0.json'; class=Filesystem (30)
```
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Closes#18393
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- Added a `ZED_RC_TOOLKIT_PATH` env variable so `winresource` crate can fetch the RC executable path correctly on some configurations
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## Description
When using rust-lld it's possible to get a `STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION`
error at compile time. I added a bit of information about it in the
build guide for windows to recommend using a different linker when
building `zed`.
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Co-authored-by: Marshall Bowers <elliott.codes@gmail.com>
This PR removes the references to initializing Git submodules as part of
building Zed.
These are no longer needed, as our only submodule was removed in #11672.
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