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Improve documention troubleshooting missing linker. Fix #32208.

@steveklabnik is this in the direction on how you want to see #32208 fixed?
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@ -166,12 +166,22 @@ you can find the Rust executables in a directory like
`"C:\Program Files\Rust stable GNU 1.x\bin"`.
Rust does not do its own linking, and so you’ll need to have a linker
installed. Doing so will depend on your specific system, consult its
documentation for more details.
installed. Doing so will depend on your specific system. For
Linux-based systems, Rust will attempt to call `cc` for linking. On
`windows-msvc` (Rust built on Windows with Microsoft Visual Studio),
this depends on having [Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools][msvbt]
installed. These do not need to be in `%PATH%` as `rustc` will find
them automatically. In general, if you have your linker in a
non-traditional location you can call `rustc
linker=/path/to/cc`, where `/path/to/cc` should point to your linker path.
If not, there are a number of places where we can get help. The easiest is
[the #rust-beginners IRC channel on irc.mozilla.org][irc-beginners] and for
general discussion [the #rust IRC channel on irc.mozilla.org][irc], which we
[msvbt]: http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools
If you are still stuck, there are a number of places where we can get
help. The easiest is
[the #rust-beginners IRC channel on irc.mozilla.org][irc-beginners]
and for general discussion
[the #rust IRC channel on irc.mozilla.org][irc], which we
can access through [Mibbit][mibbit]. Then we'll be chatting with other
Rustaceans (a silly nickname we call ourselves) who can help us out. Other great
resources include [the user’s forum][users] and [Stack Overflow][stackoverflow].