Linking hello world program fails under Windows when other MingW is in PATH

[catch22]

Building the hello world program fails with the following message:

error: linking with `gcc` failed: exit code: 1
note: gcc '-m64' [snip]
note: C:\Tools\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libnative-4e7c5e5c.rlib(native-4e7c5e5c.o):(.text+0x89): undefined reference to `_Unwind_Resume'
C:\Tools\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libnative-4e7c5e5c.rlib(native-4e7c5e5c.o):(.text+0x5bb): undefined reference to `_Unwind_Resume'
C:\Tools\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libnative-4e7c5e5c.rlib(native-4e7c5e5c.o):(.text+0x12c8): undefined reference to `_Unwind_Resume'
C:\Tools\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libnative-4e7c5e5c.rlib(native-4e7c5e5c.o):(.text+0x1396): undefined reference to `_Unwind_Resume'
C:\Tools\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libnative-4e7c5e5c.rlib(native-4e7c5e5c.o):(.text+0x1463): undefined reference to `_Unwind_Resume'
C:\Tools\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libnative-4e7c5e5c.rlib(native-4e7c5e5c.o):(.text+0x1781): more undefined references to `_Unwind_Resume' follow
c:/tools/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/4.8.1/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: C:\Tools\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libnative-4e7c5e5c.rlib(native-4e7c5e5c.o): bad reloc address 0x0 in section `.data'
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status

It appears that rustc picks up another MingW's version of ld rather than the one it ships with. The same error also appears if the rust binary directory is the first item in my PATH. The only way around it is to either remove my MingW's bin directory from the PATH or by prefixing rustlib/...mingw/gcc/bin to the PATH. Both solutions seem to be quite hackish -- I just wanted to check if this is the desired behavior.

[vadimcn]

... if this is the desired behavior.

Yes, please see #17442.

[jeffnyman]

I understand this is closed and I also looked at the related issues but it's very unclear what the actual resolution was here. Using the following:

stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu (default)
rustc 1.57.0 (f1edd0429 2021-11-29)

The issue above still happens on a fresh install of Rust via rustup and using the above toolchain. Specifically, I see the error:

collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status

And it's clear that the Rust toolchain is using an existing mingw32 setup.