windows-sys 0.61 uses raw-dylib rather than shipping binary import libraries. This reduces the vendor size and makes cross-compilation easier.

• Bootstrap: Update a bunch of bootstrap dependencies to remove windows-target #156006
• Library: Remove windows-sys from the library workspace #155681
• Compiler
  • Update a bunch of dependencies to reduce windows-sys duplication #155444
  • Allow windows-sys 0.61 stacker#145
  • Update the cc crate for rustc_llvm #155438 (blocked on perf regression)
• rustc_codegen_gcc: Update a bunch of dependencies to remove windows-targets rustc_codegen_gcc#886 (needs sync)
• rustc_codegen_cranelift
  • How to deal with the region crate dependency? bytecodealliance/wasmtime#13181
• Cargo (needs sync)
  • Allow using windows-sys 0.61 alexcrichton/curl-rust#648
  • Request for new release of the curl crate alexcrichton/curl-rust#655
  • Remove windows-sys dependencies older than 0.61 cargo#17115
• Rust-analyzer
  • Use windows-sys 0.61 rust-analyzer#22155
  • Update to notify 0.9 once it releases
• Miri
  • Use windows-sys 0.61 in tests miri#4976
  • bump most dependencies miri#5027
• Rustfmt: Update dependencies to remove windows-targets dependency rustfmt#6895 (needs sync)
• Clippy: Update dependencies to remove windows-targets dependency rust-clippy#17000
• ci-tool
• rustc-perf
  • Update ratatui and some other terminal related crates rustc-perf#2477
  • Update dependencies to almost remove windows-targets dependency rustc-perf#2478
  • Update ring and reqwest
• Docs
  • rustbook: Update rustbook dependencies to remove windows-targets dependency #156543
  • book
    • Update a bunch of windows-sys occurences book#4752
    • Update ring
    • Update lockfiles for all listings (optional as they aren't vendored)
  • rustc-dev-guide: Update dependencies to remove windows-targets dependency rustc-dev-guide#2870